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		TickleSteve on Nov 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm” its not theory... your system wasn't designed to be fault-tolerant in that manner. Systems that matter, are.

__david__ on Nov 23, 2017 [–]

The linux kernel needs to work with both tolerant and non-tolerant systems. Saying it needs to work a specific way that completely breaks real world things is completely naive, and exactly what Linus was railing against.

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