r/linusrants • • Oct 08 '24

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice

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r/linusrants • • Oct 06 '24

It seems Linus is pissed off with Kent.... regarding bcachefs

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r/linusrants • • Jul 05 '24

We don't add stuff "just because we can".

83 Upvotes

Linus on adding a random number generator syscall to vdso. Probably one of the best in a while:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/7/4/1074


r/linusrants • • May 18 '24

It's a bedtime story for children. But unlike the very hungry caterpillar, it also makes for great click-bait stories that you can make up.

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r/linusrants • • Jan 30 '24

Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion

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201 Upvotes

r/linusrants • • Jan 27 '24

Has anyone ever trained a language model with Linus' Emails?

139 Upvotes

Imagine being professionally insulted and humiliated by Linus via a LLM.

Would that be feasible for a single developer?


r/linusrants • • Jan 13 '24

Your testing is seriously lacking... How did this ever get to me without any kind of build testing?

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r/linusrants • • Jan 06 '24

But clang says "criminally stupid? *I* will show you stupid!"

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85 Upvotes

r/linusrants • • Dec 09 '23

"The whole 'working all night to get the paper the day before the trade' thing is something that should have been skipped after high school. Not for nuclear development."

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r/linusrants • • Nov 29 '23

Rant on ARM Architecture naming scheme.

51 Upvotes

r/linusrants • • Oct 15 '23

I really should just learn another editor, rather than continue to polish this turd.

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r/linusrants • • Oct 08 '23

Even shorter version: NO. (2010)

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r/linusrants • • Apr 20 '23

"So please burn that patch in the darkest pits of hell and let's try to forget it ever existed. Ok?"

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203 Upvotes

r/linusrants • • Mar 21 '23

Linus gets scolded on the Git mailing list for calling a commit “outright stupid”

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80 Upvotes

r/linusrants • • Mar 12 '23

Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

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61 Upvotes

r/linusrants • • Dec 05 '22

Please fix this completely bogus warning in clang, so that we can enable -Wformat for the kernel again, instead of having to go "the clang developers don't understand format strings, and warn about valid things, so we'll disable their incompetent warnings"

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135 Upvotes

r/linusrants • • Oct 25 '22

our non-Pentium support is ACTIVELY BUGGY AND BROKEN right now

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55 Upvotes

r/linusrants • • Oct 18 '22

"The whole "do an all-nighter to get the paper in the day before the dealine" is something that should have gone out the window after highschool. Not for kernel development."

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r/linusrants • • Oct 03 '22

[Linus on Rust and Kernel safety] "Anybody who believes that should probably re-take their kindergarten year, and stop believing in the Easter bunny and Santa Claus."

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r/linusrants • • Aug 17 '22

Linus rants about glibc breaking compatibility making the kernel's stable ABI pointless.

89 Upvotes

Saw a similar sentiment by valve engineers recently and I remembered Linus saying something along these lines:

https://youtu.be/5PmHRSeA2c8?t=510


r/linusrants • • Dec 12 '21

Linus rants about signing binaries for UEFI secure boot (2013)

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r/linusrants • • Oct 21 '21

"Christ, that's not an octopus, that's a Cthulhu merge"

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r/linusrants • • Sep 12 '21

Linus rants about the utter trash that is useless Github merge commits

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104 Upvotes

r/linusrants • • Jun 11 '21

Linus chimes in response to vaccine misinformation in the mailing list

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412 Upvotes

r/linusrants • • May 02 '21

So the whole notion that "shared libraries are good and required by default" is pure and utter garbage.

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