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I like colorized diffs, but let's face it, those particular color choices will make most people decide to pick out their eyes with a fondue fork.

— Linus Torvalds

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So in order to avoid a lot of blind git users, please apply this patch.

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Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

2.6.: still a stable kernel, but accept bigger changes leading up to it (timeframe: a month or two).

This whole ARM thing is a f*cking pain in the ass.

Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong?

Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

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