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Saturday, November 10th, 2012
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| 2:39a |
Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog) Back in early 2011, we looked at changes to the way Red Hat distributed its kernel changes. Instead of separate patches, it switched to distributing a tarball of the source tree—a move which was met with a fair amount of criticism. The Ksplice team at Oracle has just announced the availability of a Git tree that breaks the changes up into individual patches again. " The Ksplice team is happy to announce the public availability of one of our git repositories, RedPatch. RedPatch contains the source for all of the changes Red Hat makes to their kernel, one commit per fix and we've published it on oss.oracle.com/git. With RedPatch, you can access the broken-out patches using git, browse them online via gitweb, and freely redistribute the source under the terms of the GPL." (Thanks to Dmitrijs Ledkovs.) | | 5:08p |
Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users Longtime GNOME hacker Federico Mena-Quintero reflects on the kinds of complaints that occur frequently in and around free software communities. In a sharply worded blog post, complete with animated cat GIFs, he looks at some history, and adds a bit of ranting about complainers, bloggers, journalists, and so on. " We think, "good riddance" when someone threatens to stop using Gnome. (And our next thought is probably, poor people in the next project, who are going to suffer this person soon.)
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All of those poisonous people are relatively easy to brush away. The crazies. The slashdot hordes, the peanut gallery. We make names for them — we encapsulate them, give them a name, go up one level of abstraction, take a gulp of Pepto, and move that named entity into a mental /dev/null. But they leave some residue." |
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