Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762612AbYBMSQz (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:16:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752991AbYBMSQr (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:16:47 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:60525 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751761AbYBMSQp (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:16:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:08:33 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , Jeff Garzik , David Miller , arjan@infradead.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) Message-ID: <20080213180833.50019be7@core> In-Reply-To: <47B32510.20200@tiscali.nl> References: <20080211203146.3d28d1a0@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080212044314.GA4888@kroah.com> <20080211211751.3e265754@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080211.221126.230471463.davem@davemloft.net> <47B1CB08.4020101@garzik.org> <20080212174824.GA1919@kroah.com> <20080212191552.GA20883@kroah.com> <47B32510.20200@tiscali.nl> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 682 Lines: 15 > Evolution in nature and changes in code are different because in code junk > and bugs are constantly removed. In biology junk is allowed and may provide > a pool for future development. Linux development is intended and not > survival. I would be interested to see any evidence (rather than intuition) to support that given that both appear to be the same kind of structure and that structure is nowdays fairly well understood. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/