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Survey: Linux kernel quality

Survey: Linux kernel quality

Posted Jul 10, 2006 12:07 UTC (Mon) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
In reply to: Survey: Linux kernel quality by job
Parent article: Survey: Linux kernel quality

well there is also the element of selective audience.. people who did encounter a kernel bug are more likely to fill in this questionair since they have a more vested interest in the topic...


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Survey: Linux kernel quality

Posted Jul 10, 2006 14:50 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Also, I haven't encountered *any* bugs in the heavily-tested core kernel: everything I've seen has been either
- on relatively obscure arches (ARM, MIPS, SPARC64), or
- in relatively-new features (e.g. initramfs), or
- in drivers for specific hardware

The heavily-tested does-it-basically-work-on-common-hardware stuff seems to be cracked: it's just that everyone has *some* piece of obscure hardware or other, and they might get bitten by bugs in it...

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