Enlarge / A portion of the quilt letter connected to Hans Reiser’s response to Fredrick Brennan’s immediate about his filesystem’s obsolescence. (credit score: Fredrick Brennan)
With the ReiserFS lately thought-about out of date and slated for removing from the Linux kernel fully, Fredrick R. Brennan, font designer and (now regretful) founding father of 8chan, wrote to the filesystem’s creator, Hans Reiser, asking if he wished to answer to the dialogue on the Linux Kernel Mailing Listing (LKML).
Reiser, 59, serving a possible life sentence in a California jail for the 2006 homicide of his estranged spouse, Nina Reiser, wrote again with greater than 6,500 phrases, which Brennan then forwarded to the LKML. It is not typically you see anyone apologize for killing their spouse, clarify their coding selections round balanced timber versus extensible hashing, and recommend that elementary colleges supply the identical sorts of emotional intelligence curriculum that they’ve labored by way of in jail, in a software program mailing record. It is fairly a doc.
What follows is a relative abstract of Reiser’s letter, dated November 26, 2023, which we first noticed on the Phoronix weblog, and which, by all appearances, is genuine (or would in any other case be an epic little bit of minutely detailed fraud for no explicit cause). It covers, broadly, why Reiser believes his system failed to realize mindshare amongst Linux customers, past the obvious cause. This leads Reiser to element the technical potentialities, his interpersonal and management failings and growth, some lingering regrets about dealings with SUSE and Oracle and the Linux neighborhood at giant, and different matters, together with fashionable Russian geopolitics.
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