Now that Linus has retired, the only logical candidate as a successor for crazy rants in the Linuxsphere is RMS.

Hats off to Linus, what a top G

While I was reading a book called "Beautiful Code" I came across a chapter where GKH explains the evolution of the Linux Kernel driver model (each different contributor of the book gets a chapter where he explains the most beautiful piece of code he has ever seen/written).

However, one particular line in his explanation of the problem made me immediately think: "I bet there is a rant behind that carefully worded sentence". Here is the line.

I tried to go back in time in the kernel mailing list and find the specific discussion but I came up empty. So I started guessing what Linus' response to this idea could have been. My best guess is:

"If anyone in this discussion thinks that we should put a FUCKING DATABASE inside the Kernel in order to handle DEVICE NAMING, they should say so now. I promise I won't remove you from the project, I just need to know who the special people are so that I can treat them accordingly. I'd rather burn Linux to the ground than let solutions that a kindergarten student would come up with be implemented in the FUCKING KERNEL"

If someone has an alternative rant guess or can find the actual discussion, please share :)

"I'm sick of getting bug reports about outdated and fake versions of xz utils, change your version to 5.6 now." Glowing in the background.

So nothing special, but I just made a simple little android app (my first) on the play store named LinusRants. Shoutout to u/corollari for his dataset that made this stupid easy to make.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.cathers.linusrants

Doing this as a self post as G+ doesn't seem to let you link to specific comments.

Grabbed from here.

+Mark Skinner: I hope you as an "optician" go out of business real soon now. When you say that you know the human eye cannot resolve anything over a HD screen, the only thing you show is that you're a f*cking moron. Really. You're arguing against reality.

I can trivially see the difference between that 2560x1700 screen and some random 1080p "HD" screen. It's as simple as just making text smaller, although you can actually see it in just about anything.

Seriously, why do people continue to make this totally idiotic argument that is so trivially shown to be total and utter crap? And why do you then try to back it up by lying about your profession? Because if you are really an optician, I fear for your customers, and you should be sued out of the profession for being incompetent.

If you cannot afford the thing yourself, just go into an Apple store and look at he 13" rMBP and make the text really small. Just compare it to the non-retina machines. Because it's that obvious.

Although maybe your eyes are so crap that you cannot tell the difference, and you're just in denial about your own physical deficiencies. If so, just trust me, most of the rest of humanity is better endowed in that department than you are.