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

It's time to put on the brakes

Posted Nov 17, 2014 23:54 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: It's time to put on the brakes by nix
Parent article: Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer

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?

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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.