[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

[john-thomas richards]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:42:43AM -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:33 AM, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> > What sort of bugs?  When xchat or Firefox or Kile have bugs, the apps
> > crash.  When a filesystem has bugs, I may lose data.
> 
> All software has bugs.
> 
> The question to ask is not "are bugs still being found?" - variations

Which is what I didn't ask.

> in the size and sophistication of a user base, openness of code,
> attitude of upstream, etc. all affect the frequency with which bugs
> are discovered.
> 
> More appropriate questions are "How large and active is the community
> surrounding the software?", "Of what quality is the code?" - this will
> often, but not always, depend on the answer to the former question,
> and barring more direct answers to those questions, "Do people whom I
> trust to know what they're talking about - i.e. kernel devs -
> recommend it's use?".

Are the kernel devs recommending ext4?
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john-thomas
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