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And then we were told we could not integrate for Tiger.
That we would miss our self-imposed deadline. Because it was “too much change at once, with the Intel changes”.
Tiger dragged on for another 6 months before release, with week-for-week slips. This was because of Intel-specific bugs — not in the kernel.
What Goes Into Making an OS to Be Unix Compliant Certified?
Quora
PoW systems demonstrate economic stake in a cleverly indirect way: You buy a bunch of computer hardware and pay for a lot of electricity and do a bunch of calculations to prove you really care about Bitcoin. PoS systems demonstrate the economic stake directly: You just invest a lot of money in Ethereum and post it as a bond, which proves you care.
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
bloomberg.com
Many upstream projects find it easier to bundle or “vendor” dependencies, but for Debian, this means that there can be many copies of some popular libraries. When there is a need to fix a security or other severe problem in such a library, Debian would have to find all copies to fix them.
Why Is Debian the Way It Is?
blog.liw.fi
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