8.10b - first impression and questions

[Knapp]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de> wrote:
> Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>> If I understand you right, you want to say that kernel RC should be working.
>>
>> Well it might be working for the developers but it is _not_ 100% sure and if it is not even 95% sure to work then it is not an option.
>>
>> In fact from my  experience and observation what kernel people do (with all the respect to their effort) I do not trust them when they even say that a release is working.
>>
>> So please don't try to convince me that RC is fine.
>>
> I have yet to see perfect software. Even Linux does not offer it and
> imho nobody will ever be able to write a perfect solution.
>
> Eberhard

Really there is a lot of perfect software, just not much for the home
user because it costs to much to produce. What is not perfect on the
home systems is often the hardware and other peoples software that it
must interface with anyway. When you release a piece of software it
must not work with just one type of hardware but 1000s! It is really
impossible to test 1000s of possible hardware types that you might
have your software run on and it is not cost effective ether. Zero
fault software is the sort of stuff that NASA uses.

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Douglas E Knapp

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