Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-28T07:14:19Z

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 04:46:58PM +1000, michael@optusnet.com.au 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