Linux @lemmy.ml tamtt @lemmy.world 1y ago

A guy boots Linux over 200k times to find which commit caused a bug

rwmj.wordpress.com I booted Linux 292,612 times

And it only took 21 hours. Linux 6.4 has a bug where it hangs on boot, but probably only 1 in 1000 boots (and rarer if using Intel hardware for some reason). It’s surprising to me that no one…

That's some serious effort going on there.

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This is why soulless corpos can never compete with talented people who are more than happy to work on amazing things for free just for the sheer satisfaction of achieving something actually useful, instead of lining shareholder pockets while pretending to look busy
- for free
  
  They literally work for Redhat
  
  Which is now owned by IBM. I still think Red Hat is a force for good but yeah, they're not smol beans in their basement.
- In my experience, numerous people who love tackling hard problems for the sake of it go on to work at soulless corps. That's part of their success.
  
  This guy Corps.
He said it was easy, which git bisect is, but it's still very impressive! Love the dedication!
rebooting 200,000 times sounds like a typical Windoze update
- Windows 7 after a fresh install has entered the -- oh wait nevermind it's rebooting again...

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