Keynote: What Linux kernel developers wish app developers would do better - Greg Kroah-Hartman

About this talk:

In this talk, a Linux kernel developer gets to complain how his normal "test case" i.e. userspace code, could do better when it comes to a whole range of different things that have been learned over time by maintaining a stable interface to the kernel for 20+ years.

About Greg:

Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Fellow at the Linux Foundation. He is currently responsible for the stable Linux kernel releases, and is a maintainer of the USB, TTY, and driver core subsystems in the kernel as well as other portions of the kernel codebase that he wishes he could forget about.

[MarkRose]

KDE did break one thing in the move to 4.0 that is still annoying: there is no ability to set a desktop background picture that spans multiple screens.

[csehszlovakze]

systemd is *literally* the worst possible example.

[kuhluhOG]

So, this can essentially be summarized to:
- to be an asshole to your users
- use common sense
- keep in mind that there are people depending on your work for their monthly income (if your program/library or whatever has enough users/is known enough, your are going to have such people; and if you don't, then either your project is young, not needed by anyone else or you have never released it)