The Madness behind the Linux Source Code Comments

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[gFamWeb]

"This is a piece of shit made by me". Beautiful.

[oserodal]

That Linux Torvalds comment is probably from Linus himself lol.

[hanro]

If you're curious. The Sun they're talking about is Sun Micro-systems. A Unix vendor known for creating the Java programming language.

They were later bought by Oracle. A lot of this is likely for legacy sun hardware.

[t-dynamos]

These comments has to be from nouveau project.

[Lavashyk]

I would recommend doing mailing between Linus Torvalds and other maintainers next. The way Linus roasts everybody is insane.

[AHSEN.]

"Away daemons of stupidity!" That line was excellent

[kipchickensout]

There's a reason why KMS drivers are named KMS drivers

[thefanboy]

1:44 Hold up ! There are algorithms that _are nice_ in _assembler_ but a bitch *_in C_*

[Kenionatus]

I'm pretty sure 1:00 should be pronounced "big O of sodding terrible".

[liegon]

AI based text-to-speech is getting really good, but for me it now falls right into that uncanny valley territory.

[kryptoid]

I came back from Github. The comments are real. That's part of how they speak.

[CallousCoder]

I remember in the early 00s that people complained about the profanity in the Linux commands.
Linus than replied: “If the comments start to grow the kernel binary then we will clear the profanity comments out 😂

[sods]

This is how I would expect a wizards notes to look during experimentation with spells and alchemy

[whamer]

"this is a piece of shit made by me" is so true LMFAO

[henonicks]

No way. Was Linux's code also leaked?!

[NebulonRanger]

The Torvalds fucked it up one is also an Amiga reference and I love it for that

[xWatexx]

This is all of them by the way. There are no other comments in the entirety of the entire source tree for some reason

[crylune]

what I want to see is the source code comments of the spaghetti code that is the NT kernel

[klingoncowboy]

Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)

[RedactedBrainwaves]

"This is a piece of shit made by me" is probably the most relatable one