It's time to put on the brakes [LWN.net]

It's time to put on the brakes

Posted Nov 17, 2014 17:47 UTC (Mon) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103)
In reply to: It's time to put on the brakes by BrucePerens
Parent article: Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer

Wut? systemd doesn't work on Haswell systems? have a link to the bug report? that claim sounds quite adventurous to me...

Also even if that was the case, what does that have to do with whether systemd's components are shipped in one tarball or multiple?

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It's time to put on the brakes

Posted Nov 17, 2014 22:32 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (3 responses)

I'm reasonably sure Bruce said it was on *his* Haswell system.

It's time to put on the brakes

Posted Nov 17, 2014 23:54 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

I think it's more of "why is Haswell so important a distinction that it needs to be mentioned?". If my black desktop reboots every day and it doesn't have to do with overheating when it's in direct sunlight, but some specific software, why would I add that detail?

It's time to put on the brakes

Posted Nov 21, 2014 9:37 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

It's not detail for everyone. There are people who don't buy a Dell or a Lenovo or an HP system. Instead they buy an Ivy bridge or a Haswell. From a certain perspective it makes more sense.

It's time to put on the brakes

Posted Nov 21, 2014 12:20 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I build my home machine from parts, so that's what I do too. I guess I never considered calling it by the processor name but more as "my main machine" since it has gone through a few hardware upgrades over time. *shrug* Communication is hard and the Internet has made it much harder to get those details you get face-to-face which are already pretty hard sometimes.