Linux creator Linus Torvalds this week apologized for including in the just-released Linux 4.8 kernel a bug fix that crashed it. The bug the dev was trying to fix has existed since Linux 3.15, “but the fix is clearly worse than the bug … since that original bug has never killed my machine,” Torvalds wrote. “This type of situation, while rare, is common enough in smaller and less visible projects, where testing processes and protocol are typically less sophisticated than those used by Linus and his team,” noted tech analyst Al Hilwa.
This is the downside of open source projects. This is almost entirely done by dedicated volunteers and then you have Torvalds complaining about the bugs. Has a new kernel ever not been buggy at first? I was mostly told if you want a stable Linux install stay at least one or more kernel releases behind. If you look at what Dell does with Ubuntu that is their general consensus too. The real issue is lack of user feedback because you have many less testers than say a Windows or even Mac OS beta.
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Torvalds Blows Stack Over Buggy New Kernel
Posted by: Richard Adhikari October 7, 2016 02:08 PMLinux creator Linus Torvalds this week apologized for including in the just-released Linux 4.8 kernel a bug fix that crashed it. The bug the dev was trying to fix has existed since Linux 3.15, “but the fix is clearly worse than the bug … since that original bug has never killed my machine,” Torvalds wrote. “This type of situation, while rare, is common enough in smaller and less visible projects, where testing processes and protocol are typically less sophisticated than those used by Linus and his team,” noted tech analyst Al Hilwa.