Distributors ponder a systemd change
Distributors ponder a systemd change
Posted Jun 18, 2016 16:29 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Distributors ponder a systemd change by xtifr
Parent article: Distributors ponder a systemd change
> Still, that's the only recent example I can think of where the kernel folks did something with as much potential for catastrophic breakage as this has.
Not recent, but it was a deliberate decision by Linus and it caused chaos ...
Who remembers him ripping the swap optimisation code out of kernel 2.4? Leading to a spate of linux systems crashing as sysadmins discovered "swap should be twice ram" was NOT an old wives' tale ...
Cheers,
Wol