Linux Needs More Haters 617
Corrupt brings us a ZDNet column by Jeremy Allison, who says Linux could benefit from more "tough love" in order to improve its functionality and popularity. Excerpting:
"As Elie Wiesel said, 'the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.' LinuxHater really doesn't hate Linux, despite the name. No one takes that much time to point out flaws in a product that they completely loathe and despise. The complaints are really cries of frustration with a system that just doesn't quite do what is desired (albeit well disguised). A friend pointed out to me that the best way to parse LinuxHaters blog is to treat it as a series of bug reports. A perl script could probably parse out the useful information from them and log them as technical bug reports to the projects LinuxHater is writing about. Deep down, I believe LinuxHater really loves Linux, and wants it to succeed."
By that note... (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdotters must all be MS shareholders and Vista early adopters!
Re:Or perhaps... (Score:5, Funny)
They could take off the critic's hat and -fix- the things that they complain about.
I mean, isn't that one of the things that makes OSS great?
Yeah, and the other great thing about OSS is that it's as easy to fix kernel bugs as it is to point them out! Yay, you see, anyone can be a kernel developer!
Probably true (Score:3, Funny)
I "hate Linux", to the extent that I use it as little and as infrequently as possible. I certainly don't like it enough to want to spend time, that I could otherwise spend on real life, telling people why I don't like it!
Doing my part (Score:2, Funny)
Re:first tits! (Score:5, Funny)
For a person who spends his time getting first posts on Slashdot, they might as well be.
This is why I hate Linux (Score:0, Funny)
A bad RPM install killed my mom because the cheap company was using Red Hat on her kidney dialysis machine
Re:Or perhaps... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure about the months, weeks or even days. Sometimes it can be hours, sometimes even minutes, it all depends on a bug.
My bug report work flow:
1 - Make sure I'm not the bug
2 - Grab the source
3 - Browse
4 - Figure out (approximately) what point in the code my bug is coming from
5 - Write a bug report like this:
Hi,
Your program foo just killed my cat. No shit, killer pokes aren't funny dammit and you said this would work on a commodore PET! My cat had a seizure and its dead claws are now embedded in my skull as I write this.
As far as I can tell, its fate was sealed somewhere around line 2113. Looking at your commit logs, it looks like someone got ahold of the user "hsimpson"'s password, please ask him to change it.
I would help diagnose this more, but I have to get this cat off my head.
See? Even if I know _nothing_ about the code, I do know _something_ about the bug .. and can usually provide a little bit of information beyond 'its fucked up, fix it' .. which is the gist of the common bug report. :)
Re:first tits! (Score:1, Funny)
You need to learn rethpect for wymen, becauthe mytheth are more than jutht boobth, you inthenthitive clod!
Re:It's an awesome blog (Score:5, Funny)
Oh really? Are we talking about the same blogger that writes gems like this one?:
Classy all the way. And what an insight.
Re:What kernel bugs? (Score:5, Funny)
Linux is superior to Mac OS X?? *pop* I'm afraid you just blown my Mac fanboism fuse :-(
Re:first tits! (Score:5, Funny)
Igor! Just the man I was looking. I have fallen badly from a /. comment and now I need some stitching on the left leg. Seem to be missing a patch of skin off my arm too.
Stupid people dont know the truth. (Score:1, Funny)
What those people dont know is that Linux is just windows hacked/rewritten.. Open Office, is Microsoft Office rewritten. Its all Microsoft's stuff, So the Die Hard Linux fans who say Linux is so much more stable then windows, Need to get a clue, after all its just windows with a different written structure. We had to change it a little, so microsoft couldnt come down on us.
Re:Or perhaps... (Score:5, Funny)
It's easy to criticise. How about you try fixing it instead?
Re:Linux is only free if your time is worthless. (Score:3, Funny)
Would the corollary of that be "Windows is only expensive if your time is worth something" ?
Makes me think of Chappelle (Score:2, Funny)
What can I say about that suit that hasn't already been said about Afghanistan? It looks bombed out and depleted. (Playa Hater's Ball [comedycentral.com])