Linux 4.0(git.kernel.org) |
OSX Yosemite
Linux "Hurr durr I'ma sheep"
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In some ways it's comforting that such an intergral part of all of our lives doesn't have to be branded and packaged in a way that's stylistic. It's nice knowing that this truly is a community project, and that it's an effort of people - not some megacorp who needs to market it to the highest amount of people possible.
Great work everyone who worked on this.
“Windows Threshold/XP/9/10”, “OS X Yosemite” are comparable to “Ubuntu“, not Linux.
NT & -Darwin- [Edit: You're right LukeShu, XNU] are the Linux equivalents, they're the names of the kernels and not supposed to be consumer friendly.
Not that such a thing isn't practically inevitable for a project the scale of the Linux kernel.
That was just a codename. Vista and XP (and ME?) are actual examples.
2015 Year of the Linux Desktop, obviously.
In his own words, he keeps naming things after himself.
(Although that's not entirely accurate. Linux was named by the guy who uploaded it to the ftp site; Linus' original name for it was Freax. (A 'Free' 'Unix'; the 'x' at the end being de rigueur for a Unix variant.) Hooray for opinionated people who just wantonly change names with no regard for the creator's desire, I suppose.)
> .. after extensive statistical analysis of my G+ polling, I've come to the inescapable conclusion that internet polls are bad.
> Big surprise.
> But "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" trounced "I like online polls" by a 62-to-38% margin, in a poll that people weren't even supposed to participate in. Who can argue with solid numbers like that? 5,796 votes from people who can't even follow the most basic directions?
If, on the Internet, there is a forum with two posts, one titled "WARNING: READ THIS IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE, PROPERTY, AND THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF YOUR SPECIES. ALSO, IMPORTANT TAX INFORMATION." and the other titled "Test post, please ignore", the first would have a few views, and maybe a couple posts.
The second would be a veritable Times Square.
Torvalds got precisely what was coming to him.
The next version will be code named "Warning: Do Not Click".
- Basic support for applying patches to a running kernel, allowing the application of fixes without the need to reboot the system. There is still work to be done to get to a fully featured live-patching system, but the foundation is there in 4.0.
- The remap_file_pages() system call has been removed. Emulation of its functionality remains, though, so applications should not break.
- The kernel's support for large nonvolatile memory devices has improved considerably.
- The lazytime mount option allows for more efficient and accurate tracking of file access times.
- The kernel address sanitizer (KASan) is an important new development tool for ensuring that the kernel is not accessing memory that it shouldn't.
So maybe Linux 30 by 2020?
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
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NO GNUS ARE GOOD GNUS
Linux will never break backwards compatibility enough to justify a major version bump, so the major version is effectively meaningless.
It just seems petty.
Is there something I'm missing?
It does seem like a slight against our Ubuntu, Debain, Mac OS, Windows et al. comrades.
Without any context, "Hurr, durr, I'm a sheep" seems rude to users and administrators of every OS distribution. With this context, it seems like maybe not a very funny addition to a long running joke.
Great. Now I'm confused...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/92dd8/test_post_please...
which was the most upvoted post on reddit until about a year ago (a fairly significant achievement, given the enormous growth of reddit in the intervening years).
Thank fucking God. I loathe version names. Place these in release date order: Lion, Snow Leopard, and Tiger. Now, place these in release order: 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8. Which do you find communicated more useful information?
Some things never change.
I realize this information has been circulated around, but unless this has been confirmed by Microsoft please don't claim facts without evidence.
And as for some evidence this is the case: https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28version%2Cstartswith%28%22win...
Cute. New to the profession?
Chew on this:
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windo...
I wish that were true, and it may be if you're dealing with competent developers, but I've seen code that does exactly that in the wild!
https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28version%2Cstartswith%28%22win...
"Unverified"? Sure. "Highly improbable"? You don't know that any better than I do.
I find Intrepid Ibex, Gutsy Gibbon, Feisty Fawn, Hardy Heron, etc. to be quite sortable.
More brand awareness for open source projects == good.
At least that's how it worked in commercial software. Now the names have taken on a life of their own.
And there's no need to use the condescending "cute". I certainly wasn't trying to start a flame war here. I'm asking you to verify information before repeating it as fact.
At the end of the day, we're still only guessing at Microsoft's rationale. Esoteric compatibility issues seem lower down the list from issues like breaking away from the Windows 8 name (which has accumulated negative association in the public view).
Until Microsoft says for sure, it's just a bit silly to make the claim as fact.
And you're discounting company-internal products that were built in the 95-98 era, then updated when new business regulations came out, but were never rewritten in a modern language and the company wouldn't spend time and money to port them to Windows 9 when they worked fine on every previous version -- they'll just wait until a newer version of Windows fixes the problem or Microsoft very forcibly drop support for 8 completely.
> if (osName.indexOf("9") != -1) {
Jesus Hermann Christ. It's not just looking for "Windows 9", it's looking for a "9" anywhere in the version string. Yes, it's under an if clause looking for "Windows" also in the version string, so it won't trigger on "Plan 9" or something, but still it'll get triggered by something like Windows 19.
