Quotes of the week

After reading more and more about BFS, I've realized that it's the Fight Club of schedulers. You do not talk about BFS on linux-kernel. BFS does not benchmark, it does not keep score, it has no leaderboard. BFS only exists in the time between when Flash Player starts and when Flash Player crashes.

My life's project is to hunt down the guy who invented mail client wordwrapping, set him on fire then dance on his ashes.

Linux is a 18+ years old kernel, there's not that many easy projects left in it anymore :-/ Core kernel features that look basic and which are not in Linux yet often turn out to be not that simple.

Checkpoint/restart has traditionally been interesting in the mainframe and supercomputer space. These environments have very different security profiles from a user desktop. No one at the [.......] National Supercomputer Centre cares if you can save your rogue game as soon as you pick up the Amulet of Yendor and restart it if you get killed on the way up. These environments are concerned with leaking data between the groups that have funded the facility, which is why they are very often customers of advanced access control technologies. I don't know that I see a really good security story for [checkpoint/restart] in the desktop space, and as Russell points out, there are plenty of opportunities to exploit the feature.