Inside the OpenSolaris Source Code 338
An anonymous reader writes "Ten million lines of code and not a single profanity? Is that really possible? Apparently, yes, says OpenSolaris community manager Jim Grisanzio. He said even before Sun filtered the code, it was relatively free of profanity. 'They went through the code for a great many things,' he said, 'and I'm sure they cleaned a word or two. Or three.' But a careful look through the code will reveal some programmers' frustration." From the article: "The most embarassing comment came from a developer of the GRUB project who went only by the name of 'Gord'. 'This function is truly horrid,' he wrote. 'We try opening the device, then severely abuse the GEOMETRY->flags field to pass a file descriptor to biosdisk. Thank God nobody's looking at this comment, or my reputation would be ruined.'"
GRUB project?? (Score:0, Informative)
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=fucking (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Grub is a bootloader (Score:5, Informative)
Comparison with Linux (Score:2, Informative)
I'm not going to say whether Linux or Solaris is a better OS. But it seems like the Linux code might be a bit more entertaining to read.
Re:Is Gord reading Slashdot? (Score:4, Informative)
More checking needed (Score:4, Informative)
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=shit&am (Score:2, Informative)
Re:10kHz in 1996 (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Grub is a bootloader (Score:2, Informative)
And this coming from the people who gave the world the HME ("Happy Meal Ethernet") network devices?
I guess you're not being too serious.
Re:10kHz in 1996 (Score:4, Informative)
In case anyone was wondering... (Score:3, Informative)
Nope (Score:1, Informative)
Re:10kHz in 1996 (Score:2, Informative)
PPro was a complete architecture redesign. After that it's all been incremental (with the exception of the now-abandoned Netburst architecture). So there's a lot of accumulated changes, but the basic structure and execution approach remain based in the P6. The P6 architecture has proven remarkably robust, surviving the addition of four vector instruction sets, a decade, and an order of magnitude clock speed increase.
Re:10kHz in 1996 (Score:3, Informative)
So a rock-solid 100kHz clock is less precise (broader timeslices) but more accurate than a drifty 1MHz clock.