Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired) [LWN.net]

Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired)

Posted Nov 25, 2008 4:54 UTC (Tue) by Ze (subscriber, #54182)
In reply to: Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired) by roblucid
Parent article: Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired)

LWN is read and can be respected, because they report the good and bad, not filtering things through some censorship filter. Hans Reiser, is someone of interest, I've used his file systems and seen him make the Linux news (for both good and bad reasons). The bottom line is, I don't want to nor expect to have to go somewhere like wired, to catch up on what's happening, my LWN subscription suffices.

I think the reporting on the Reiser case gone far beyond being relevant to linux now.

I don't agree with the people saying it shouldn't be reported on because of the damage it does to linux. I think that's a bit of a far-fetched argument. In that case the only conclusion is that the people think it's still relevant to linux and thus LWN should censor itself from damaging press to linux. If that was the case then I would cease to be a subscriber.

I do however agree with the people saying it's not relevant to linux though. I've ignored posting on here simply not to legitimize it any more but I feel your post deserves a reply. You may have gotten interest in the trial in the first place because of linux but that link as time has gone on has become more and more tenuous.

When Reiser contributes something else to linux then I'll be interested but going on and on about his trial is simply voyeuristic gossiping.

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Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired)

Posted Nov 27, 2008 12:40 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link]

> I don't agree with the people saying it shouldn't be reported on because of the damage it does to linux

Well, it's arguable that the damage Hans Reiser being convicted of murder does to Linux is considerably less than the damage Hans Reiser taking an active part in kernel development did, anyway. ;-)

Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired)

Posted Nov 28, 2008 9:45 UTC (Fri) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964) [Link]

> You may have gotten interest in the trial in the first place because of
> linux but that link as time has gone on has become more and more tenuous.

Hans Reiser developed an important and widely used file system (the first journalling filesystem) included in the 2.4.0 Linus kernel release. Now I agree Hans in jail, probably is having an enforced lower profile, but he is a Linux 'personality'; therefore LWN should keep us informed.

Those who aren't interested, can avoid investing the 30 seconds to skim read the item, but move on and just click on the tech news.

For me knowing LWN will cover such news, saves me polling places like wired, which would be really time consuming, on off chance there's something.

Those arguing case for strictly "Linux related" items, well sorry, but it is to me :

mount | grep reiser
/dev/sda5 on / type reiserfs (rw,noacl)
/dev/sda6 on /var type reiserfs (rw,data=writeback,noacl)
/dev/sda9 on /sw type reiserfs (rw,noacl)
/dev/sda7 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noacl)

Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired)

Posted Nov 29, 2008 0:46 UTC (Sat) by Ze (subscriber, #54182) [Link]

Those arguing case for strictly "Linux related" items, well sorry, but it is to me : mount | grep reiser /dev/sda5 on / type reiserfs (rw,noacl) /dev/sda6 on /var type reiserfs (rw,data=writeback,noacl) /dev/sda9 on /sw type reiserfs (rw,noacl) /dev/sda7 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noacl)

What did the article have to do with linux? Sure it had to do with Reiser but not everything that goes on in Reisers life has to do with linux , in fact I'm pretty sure not much that goes on in his life has to do with linux now.

Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired)

Posted Dec 2, 2008 11:17 UTC (Tue) by njd27 (subscriber, #5770) [Link]

LWN doesn't mean Linux Weekly News any more, you know. See the FAQ.