excuse

If you, like me, own a Palm III and also use Linux for your OS, then you are a complete geek. My excuse of owning a Palm is that my friend gave it to me, what’s yours?

But that’s not the point of this post. The point of it is to show what ELSE is [...]

Fathers of 5 year old boys and house-trainers of young puppies realize that they do not get the message the first time.

I love Linux, I really do...the servers that host Ask Leo! have run Linux for several years now...I do keep looking for an excuse to run it as my primary machine.

But I can't. I've tried several times, and each time I give up, returning to Windows...It's getting better, but it still has the feeling of a "do it yourself" operating system.

An API should refrain from making promises that it cannot keep. A recent episode involving the kernel's in_atomic() macro demonstrates how things can go wrong when a function does not really do what it appears to do.

It is also a good excuse to look at an under-documented (but fundamental) aspect of kernel code design. Click below (subscribers only) for the full story.