Back in the (2.1.x) day it seemed like I was running ac kernels more often than not. Nowadays though, I've been away from the kernel world for so long that I don't even know how big of a deal this is. Anyone care to chime in?
Not a very big deal, though I'm sad he has a family crisis. The only entry in MAINTAINERS left for Alan is drivers/tty/serial. He's been doing some kernel bugzilla triage too, that'll be missed.
I believe the joke is about him complaining about Fedora, then switching to Ubuntu and now announcing that he's leaving Linux world a day later because of Canonical.
It's so great to see the Linux kernel hackers jabbing at each other. Makes me think of how people in my area (Philly) are constantly teasing each other out of friendship. :)
While it sucks that you posted this and it didn't end up frontpaged (we all love karma), there's no good reason to link it here. When a dupe happens, threads are linked not to 'give credit' or something like that, but to show people conversations that they missed around the topic; in this case, there are none.
To be honest, I don't mind the karma much (as you can see, I don't have much, don't comment or post much, and mostly lurk around here).
I only was curious that it didn't get any attention when I posted it yesterday, and I was wondering why (Time of posting? People don't care about Alan Cox? Was there some obvious joke or prank that I was missing?).
I'd seen old-thread links posted before, so I thought this was a standard thing to do. But your point (of linking only to relevant discussion) makes perfect sense. Thanks :)
I did not knew that the event has been submitted before. If I would have been aware of it I would have up-voted you instead of submitting another link.
In case anyone gets confused between the two like I sometimes do, Alan Cox (Linux Kernel hacker) is not Russ Cox (Go language & Plan 9 from User Space hacker).
A huge thank you to Alan for all his work over the years. Like quite a few others who ran linux back in the old 2.2/2.4 days, the -ac kernels where the place to be.
I'm reminded of the Derek Silvers article (http://sivers.org/ff) on the importance of the second guy to a movement.
While I know that Alan wasn't the actual second developer to participate in Linux, he sure seemed that way to me and quite a few others. His work was as the "gatherer of patches" in the pre-bitkeeper days was unparalleled. I don't think Linux could have prospered without his assistance.
Why do people direct comments at AC assuming he will read them here? Isn't that a little self-centered? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to leave such comments at the original post?
We know he's had his falling out with Linus in the past. I tend to believe him, but with that hells angel biker beard, I don't know. There could be some sketchy and shady elements involved here. Probably not though, sketchy people watch black-n-white TVs, and I'm sure Alan either has no TVs or a color TV ;)
I think Linus's asshole-ness is probably key to Linux's success. He ought to be considered the world's leading expert on running an open source project, after all.
I remember running your patched kernels circa 2000. Thanks for your hard work.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 63.7 ms ] threadThat said, I too of course hope that whatever situation he is in the middle of goes well.
See his last few posts https://plus.google.com/111104121194250082892/posts
This makes it sound less certain that this is only "for a bit."
edit: I didn't mean to post this for karma or hard feelings; see my reply to daeken at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5109903 :)
I only was curious that it didn't get any attention when I posted it yesterday, and I was wondering why (Time of posting? People don't care about Alan Cox? Was there some obvious joke or prank that I was missing?).
I'd seen old-thread links posted before, so I thought this was a standard thing to do. But your point (of linking only to relevant discussion) makes perfect sense. Thanks :)
I did not knew that the event has been submitted before. If I would have been aware of it I would have up-voted you instead of submitting another link.
I will up-vote your link now.
[1] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DGzr5UFEIXM/AAAAAAAAAAI/A...
[2] http://goo.gl/BhXmc
[3] http://goo.gl/w5HNx
Background: http://research.swtch.com/field
Implementation: http://research.swtch.com/qart. It's all written in Go, btw.
Running code, so you can try it on yourself: http://research.swtch.com/qr/draw
QArt coder: http://research.swtch.com/qr/draw
I'm reminded of the Derek Silvers article (http://sivers.org/ff) on the importance of the second guy to a movement.
While I know that Alan wasn't the actual second developer to participate in Linux, he sure seemed that way to me and quite a few others. His work was as the "gatherer of patches" in the pre-bitkeeper days was unparalleled. I don't think Linux could have prospered without his assistance.
We know he's had his falling out with Linus in the past. I tend to believe him, but with that hells angel biker beard, I don't know. There could be some sketchy and shady elements involved here. Probably not though, sketchy people watch black-n-white TVs, and I'm sure Alan either has no TVs or a color TV ;)
http://kerneltrap.org/node/759
I remember running your patched kernels circa 2000. Thanks for your hard work.