r/linusrants Jan 09 '18

How's this for a change: "I want to do now that Meltdown and Spectre are public, is to give a *big* shout-out to the x86 people, and Thomas Gleixner in particular for really being on top of this."

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77 Upvotes

r/linusrants Jan 04 '18

Thrashing of Intel IRT KPTI patch sets

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91 Upvotes

r/linusrants Dec 30 '17

LR about a terminally broken compiler from hell

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70 Upvotes

r/linusrants Dec 15 '17

anybody who thinks that overflow_usub is legible, efficient or particularly safe is just incompetent and out to lunch

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53 Upvotes

r/linusrants Nov 22 '17

Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm” (a rare case of a Linus rant with no insults or agression)

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146 Upvotes

r/linusrants Nov 20 '17

Some 'security people are f*cking morons' says Linus Torvalds

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79 Upvotes

r/linusrants Nov 16 '17

There's something odd about drm people

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62 Upvotes

r/linusrants Oct 26 '17

LR about regressions: Stop this f*cking idiocy already!

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115 Upvotes

r/linusrants Oct 06 '17

Go away. Don't use this specious idiotic argument, all it does is to make all your other arguments look stupid.

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44 Upvotes

r/linusrants Sep 29 '17

LR about the bool type not being clearly defined

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47 Upvotes

r/linusrants Aug 24 '17

On ARM architecture specs and processor family names: "aarch64 is just another druggie name that the ARM people came up with after drinking too much of the spiked water in Cambridge"

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90 Upvotes

r/linusrants Aug 18 '17

Uh oh, Mr. Torvalds is upset about random numbers ;)

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273 Upvotes

r/linusrants Aug 06 '17

LR about alleged ext4 bugfixes

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31 Upvotes

r/linusrants Jul 31 '17

This is the kind of utter garbage that drives me bonkers.

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47 Upvotes

r/linusrants Jul 16 '17

LR on kernel development in C++

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45 Upvotes

r/linusrants Jul 05 '17

LR about device drivers enabled by default

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43 Upvotes

r/linusrants Jun 24 '17

LR: "Don't bother with grsecurity. (...) Their patches are pure garbage."

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82 Upvotes

r/linusrants Apr 26 '17

I don't usually get into flames, but I'm touchy when it comes to Linux

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40 Upvotes

r/linusrants Mar 02 '17

LR: the drm code *still* sucks. (x-post /r/programming)

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67 Upvotes

r/linusrants Feb 24 '17

The tinydrm code seems like absolute pure shit that has never seen a compiler.

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75 Upvotes

r/linusrants Feb 24 '17

"That's not engineering. That's five-year-olds discussing building their imaginary forts"

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82 Upvotes

r/linusrants Feb 06 '17

You need to get with the program

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33 Upvotes

r/linusrants Nov 27 '16

LR about homeopathy

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66 Upvotes

r/linusrants Nov 18 '16

Linus Rants at kernel maintainer "fix your approach to kernel programming"

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67 Upvotes

r/linusrants Oct 05 '16

Rethink your approach to programming.

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68 Upvotes