Linus Torvalds Dropped Christmas F-Bomb on Kernel Developer
Linux creator Linus Torvalds went on a tirade in the Linux kernel mailing list targeting Red Hat's Mauro Carvalho Chehab, one of kernel maintainers who blamed an application for breakage in the Linux kernel 3.8 RC1.
Torvalds chimed in just before Christmas with expletives and a public reprimand that Linux never blames user programs for breakage. "How hard can this be to understand?" Torvalds wrote.
In a response to a note of Chehab, which suggested that "pulseaudio/tumbleweed has some serious bugs and/or regressions", Torvalds wrote: "Shut up, Mauro. And I don't _ever_ want to hear that kind of obvious garbage and idiocy from a kernel maintainer again. Seriously."
Another taste from his post: "We particularly don't break user space with TOTAL CRAP. I'm angry, because your whole email was so _horribly_ wrong, and the patch that broke things was so obviously crap. The whole patch is incredibly broken shit. It adds an insane error code (ENOENT), and then because it's so insane, it adds a few places to fix it up ("ret == -ENOENT ? -EINVAL : ret"). The fact that you then try to make *excuses* for breaking user space, and blaming some external program that *used* to work, is just shameful. It's not how we work. Fix your f*cking "compliance tool", because it is obviously broken. And fix your approach to kernel programming."
In a follow up post, Torvalds said that he was "upset" and "very upset".
You can read Torvald's post in its entirety here, including the parts we could not print here.
Tom's the Authority on Tech. Is this even news?
Will it make my pentium go faster and can it run Crysis?
Linus Torvald uses the F word again!
better than ipod this ipad that apple sued apple the final showdown.
on a website that sanctions you for any use of a bad word, yea news worthy.
linus getting mad and it getting public over a bad kernal, that is also somewhat news worthy, but the way its reported, its like they dont thing bad words are common in our language.
oh im sorry, but i think... um... you know... you may... just may have... botched this kernal... im sorry... forgive me
yea, you really thing that the above line gets the point across.
he not only cale him incompetent, but is showing that he puts himself to as high a regard as he asks from people.
you cant do that, quit, there are people who will gladly take your place, and may be less incompetent.