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[โ€“] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 107 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I say you've won an operating system once you've contributed code that got into its kernel

[โ€“] fluxion@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fear your code will break something one day and Linus will hunt you down will forever your thoughts.

Game over.

[โ€“] over_clox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your comment seems to have a ----- missing..

[โ€“] fluxion@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] over_clox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

haunting you for the holiday ๐Ÿ‘ป

[โ€“] over_clox@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Alright, have an upvote ๐Ÿ‘

But.. If you wrote the boss (or even just portions of it), then defeat the kernel boss you partly wrote, isn't that like cheating?

[โ€“] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Windows when you can activate it without giving MS your info. Of course, like so many final bosses, it tends to come back harder the next phase.

[โ€“] tonyn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] muzzle@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!

[โ€“] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Kernel, compiler and WebKit back in the day, taking the hat trick.