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Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] rain_worl -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hardware is like your computer, stuff like the cpu and ram. software is like the programs on that computer. linus torvalds makes a program that has to deal with the details of the computer (the linux kernel). as such, they have to work around problems in the hardware.

[–] wulrus 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the unappreciated ELI2

[–] rain_worl 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

fuck

[–] elbarto777 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm a graybeard software engineer with 30+ years of experience.

I appreciated your explanation.

[–] wulrus 3 points 1 month ago

Me too; it's BECAUSE I'm so old that I appreciate a general rooting what this is all about.