There is a difference between what the project wants to achieve and what it actually does achieve in current versions of the implementation. Debating the later would just lead to unproductive flamewar. My intention is to ask Linus about his opinion on situation when a project emerges within his domain (kernel) which subverts the traditional and proved paradigms and major vendors actually aggressively push that instead of his version - regardless of maturity and quality track. And it's not about ego; "my project" vs. "other project". It's about major market players replacing your product with inferior solution. Technical arguments and design is not enough to survive on the market.

Linus does not put any weight in ideology. He is meritocratic. And focused on kernel only. The userspace does not bother him much. However what good is a kernel - no matter how perfect - if there is no userspace to make use of that kernel? Well, "no userspace" is an exaggeration obviously. What I want to say is that you should think also about areas where you are not involved directly. Moving from "do one thing and do it well" to "do many things in one complex subsystem" and pushing that into most major distros ... that is something where we should not hurry the decission.

So ... I'll try to rephrase the question again: what would you do if someone came up with a similar effort in kernel? Sort of like the situation with ZFS? Doing great things in order to deliver higher speed, reliability, robustness but breaking some paradigms such as traditional filesystem layers in the process?

It's not part of the protocol, but it is usually part of the DHCP server implementation.

As far as I know, RADNS tells the client what DNS server and DNS suffix to use. But it does not tell the DNS server that client with address 2a00::1 is now known as foo.example.org. Which means that other machines in the LAN cannot resolve foo.example.org name to back to address 2a00::1.

I admit that I'm no expert in this area, so if I'm wrong I would gladly learn how it really works.

What other solution updates my DNS server dynamically?

How do you go about measuring those infinite things?

You grab a (metric!) measuring tape and off you go!

your entire justification for using your existing units is because you are used to them right?

Could you, please, clarify how does following fit into imperial system?

One Joule is equal to the energy transferred (or work done) when applying a force of one newton through a distance of one meter.

One Volt is a potential difference between two parallel, infinite planes spaced 1 meter apart that create an electric field of 1 Newton per Coulomb.

One Ampere is constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed 1 metre apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2*10^-7 newton per metre of length.

One Tesla is equal to one Weber per square meter.

How does all that translate to imperial?

There was a time when people didn't need passports to travel between nations.

And there was a time when Villeins were tied to the land and could not move away without their lord's consent and the acceptance of the lord to whose manor they proposed to migrate to.

What a complete waste of time this article was!

Ha! That will teach you breaking the time honored slashdot tradition and reading TFA!

If you decided to scrape the logo off, should you go to jail?

Of course. For sure they will come up with some BS reasoning such as: The product design is copyrighted and by removing the logo you modify the design hence violating the copyright. Or something like that.

but submissions turned into polls don't get karma credit,

Who cares?