Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 04:46:58PM +1000, michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> That's NOT the same as bug free software. For a start, there's no such
> thing. For another, many bugs are perfectly acceptable in a production
> environment as long as they're not impacting. (The linux kernel is a
> very large piece of work. Few installations would use even 20% of the
> total kernel functionality).

I'd expect vastly less than 1%, starting from the arch count, and then
making some conservative guesses about drivers. Drivers probably
actually take it down to far, far less than 1%.


-- wli
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