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Linus Torvalds takes on evil developers, hardware errors and 'hilarious' AI hype
I have not read it yet but should be good if you are into tech stuff.
SEATTLE -- At The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America, Linus Torvalds and his good friend Dirk Hohndel, Verizon's Head of the Open Source Program Office, once more had a wide-ranging conversation about Linux development and related issues.
Their chat started with briefly mentioning tabs vs. spaces in source code. No, seriously. In programming circles, this is a big deal. A developer had proposed replacing a tab with a space character to help Kconfig parsers read files. No, sorry, that was a bad move.
As Torvalds explained, Kconfig adds hidden tabs on purpose to catch mistakes in kernel config parsing tools. Now you and that developer know.
Moving to issues that matter more to mortal users than kernel programmers, Torvalds was happy to report that all is "calm and steady and boring" with the forthcoming Linux 6.9 kernel release. That's as it should be with an over-30-year-old software project. If something is exciting, then that probably means something's gone wrong.
Their chat started with briefly mentioning tabs vs. spaces in source code. No, seriously. In programming circles, this is a big deal. A developer had proposed replacing a tab with a space character to help Kconfig parsers read files. No, sorry, that was a bad move.
As Torvalds explained, Kconfig adds hidden tabs on purpose to catch mistakes in kernel config parsing tools. Now you and that developer know.
Moving to issues that matter more to mortal users than kernel programmers, Torvalds was happy to report that all is "calm and steady and boring" with the forthcoming Linux 6.9 kernel release. That's as it should be with an over-30-year-old software project. If something is exciting, then that probably means something's gone wrong.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-takes-on-evil-developers-hardware-errors-and-hilarious-ai-hype/
