Quotes of the week

With netlink you can do whatever you like - it is like ioctl but without the guilt.

What you've created is no longer a single project, it is called a distro, and you're being short-sighted and anti-social to think you can garner more support than all of those individual packages you forked. This is why most developers work upstream and let the goodness propagate down from the top like molten sugar of each granular package on a flan where it is collected from the rich custard channel sitting on a distribution plate below before the big hungry mouth of the consumer devours it and incorporates it into their infrastructure.

What happens is that hundreds of bug reports land in my inbox and I get to route them to various maintainers, most of whom don't exist, so warnings keep on landing in my inbox. Please send a mailing address for my invoices.

It would be more practical, more successful and quicker to hunt down the miscreants and send them rude emails. Plus it would save you money.

I guess you are talking to the wrong person as i actually have implemented ls functionality in the kernel, using async IO concepts and extreme threading ;-) It was a bit crazy, but was also the fastest FTP server ever running on this planet.