I started on RedHat, because it was the major distro at the time. Then because of the controversial RHEL/Fedora split, I switched to Slackware. The RHEL/Fedora split was a non-issue, but once I tried Slackware, I realized it was so much better, I never went back to Redhat.

My friend went to Gentoo around the same time. He never wanted to go back to Redhat either, for similar reasons.

I know how to engineer complex things. I looked at the eventual fix, and it should have been done long ago.

Furthermore, if regression tests are important (and they are), they need a suite of automated tests so those things aren't all being done manually.

Finally, it's not like the glibc team traditionally avoids breaking things.

Ah, that actually makes sense, good analysis.

This sort of thing worries me about glibc, and the attitude that 'bugs are no big deal' is a dangerous one that is infecting software developers all over.

lol let your mind go and imagine how many terms become legal terms by that definition. "She ______ on the Judges' _____ in his ____"

As with many things, some regulations are good, and some are bad (if that idea gives you problems, then you need to reconsider your life).

With taxis, we can clearly see two kinds of regulation:
1) Regulations that make customers (and drivers) safer and less likely to be ripped off.
2) Regulations that are designed to limit competition.

Obviously, we want to keep the first type of regulation, because they achieve good results. We want to reduce the second type, because they drive prices up for everyone and reduce quality.

They should have fixed the bug as soon as they realized it was there, and not waited until someone proved it was an especially bad bug.

'adb shell cat /proc/cpuinfo' will give you lots of info about the cpu, one of the features being listed there as JAVA

Unless the benefit is that the older generation can live longer, and gain more wisdom, before the younger kids become......teenagers.

That is, the race would benefit from the greater wisdom of older folks, not individuals.

This is true, but my post was aimed at the OP, who still seems to be having trouble even though he is an adult.

It's fine to support Obama, but to come up with that particular twisted viewpoint, a person would need to expect Obama to agree with him on everything.

Not only is the president still capable of vetoing bills, but it was passed with a bipartisan effort, and the administration has defended it in court.

And X-forwarding.

Makes you feel good that the same people who messed up X.org are building Wayland, doesn't it?

Why do you have to program for it? Why not use......Motif.....or something?

"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." - Henry Spencer

I think of that quote every time I think of SystemD

You will feel at home in so many ways. You will type 'ps aux' and see the process list can be read in a single page.

The only downsides will be the lack of a solid package manager, most specifically no way to automatically upgrade all software on your system; and (possibly, depending on your hardware) driver issues not being resolved as easily.

Studies of company CxO suites have shown that the opposite is true.....success leads to arrogance, rather than the other way around. No one wants to promote the arrogant prick, but they become arrogant once they get there.