Vote On A Distribution For Linux Benchmarking

[verde]

Are you really stupid or are you just pretending to be stupid?

s/he is...

[TheBlackCat]

bla bla bla, there is absolutely no way the known statistics (distros share) legitimately change in a poll.

This is only true if you assume:

1. There is only one time zone
2. The distribution of distro users is consistent around the world
3. The distribution of distro users is consistent across age groups and professions (some people will be working when others aren't)
4. Users of different distros visit Phoronix with equal frequency on average
5. Users in different regions or different professions visit Phoronix with equal frequency on average.

1 and 2 are certainly false. 3 is almost certainly false. 4 and 5 are probably false.

You can like whatever you want but there is the "one person-one vote" rule and the Ubuntu "people" are more than Fedora "people" and the Fedora "people" are more than the Manjaro "people".

Amongst the general linux user base, but again you make assumptions, in this case that Phoronix readers are representative of the general linux user base, which again is probably not true.

So the poll is not legitimate because statistics dont lie but they can be cheated.

They can also be misinterpreted.

[Maudit]

Stallman mate we all know very well ... Linus Torvalds instead said , "I believe that Ubuntu has taken the right approach, and it was very user-centric", then forget it. Do you know who this is Linus Torvalds? I think the issue of Linux are its users, who are at war not realizing that actually Linux on desktop DOES NOT EXIST!

R.M. Stallman is the father of the Free Software and the founder of Free Software Foundation.
Your statements "These words are the death of free software" and "this is the philosophy of free software" - so - are simply ridiculous, wrong and false.

[jrch2k8]

Did you miss the sarcasm tag?

That's actually from Wayland or rather Weston... But I knew some idiot would claim it is ugly just because I said it is from Mir. It is the handle_setmaster function in this file: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...eston-launch.c

I just changed some names around to remove any hint that it is from Weston.

yes i did was 1 am my gmt when i replied but that in plain ISO C XX is tolerable and since weston is a toy i can understand is less rigid about this kind of stuff but when you put C++ i snapped seeing a goto

well the good news i checked most wayland code and is neat and goto free, so i suppose this was the kinda "is a toy code i don't care" i will report it as a bug either way in case someone wants to use weston for production later

[jrch2k8]

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67620 reported

[LinuxGamer]

yes i did was 1 am my gmt when i replied but that in plain ISO C XX is tolerable and since weston is a toy i can understand is less rigid about this kind of stuff but when you put C++ i snapped seeing a goto

well the good news i checked most wayland code and is neat and goto free, so i suppose this was the kinda "is a toy code i don't care" i will report it as a bug either way in case someone wants to use weston for production later

hey thanks for replying and the report

[jayrulez]

yes i did was 1 am my gmt when i replied but that in plain ISO C XX is tolerable and since weston is a toy i can understand is less rigid about this kind of stuff but when you put C++ i snapped seeing a goto

well the good news i checked most wayland code and is neat and goto free, so i suppose this was the kinda "is a toy code i don't care" i will report it as a bug either way in case someone wants to use weston for production later

I checked Wayland repo also and it seems that it uses goto more than Weston does.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...c/connection.c 15 instances

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...yland-client.c 7 instances

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...c/wayland-os.c 2 instances

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...yland-server.c 5 instances

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/.../wayland-shm.c 3 instances


I don't think you needed to report a big for this as it is not really an issue with using goto as long as you use it properly.

[jrch2k8]

I checked Wayland repo also and it seems that it uses goto more than Weston does.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...c/connection.c 15 instances

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...yland-client.c 7 instances

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...c/wayland-os.c 2 instances

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...yland-server.c 5 instances

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/.../wayland-shm.c 3 instances


I don't think you needed to report a big for this as it is not really an issue with using goto as long as you use it properly.

well in my brain is burned goto is the last option unless the universe is about collapse and implode, even if i know goto is not illegal to use, i guess ill take some time and try to remove them and submit the patches

[Akka]

I checked Wayland repo also and it seems that it uses goto more than Weston does.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...c/connection.c 15 instances

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...yland-client.c 7 instances

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...c/wayland-os.c 2 instances

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...yland-server.c 5 instances

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/.../wayland-shm.c 3 instances


I don't think you needed to report a big for this as it is not really an issue with using goto as long as you use it properly.

I think it is generally considered acceptable use of goto to use it in error management in c code? At least it is very common. I get the impression the use both in weston and wayland is this.

[jrch2k8]

I think it is generally considered acceptable use of goto to use it in error management in c code? At least it is very common. I get the impression the use both in weston and wayland is this.

yeah i mean is not illegal or wrong per se, i mean i was trained and trained and trained again to consider this stuffs the ultimate evil :

1.) char[] <-- will summon beelzebub to your house
2.) goto <-- will kill my dog
3.) union -- uint/char[] <-- will rupture space time continuum

and goto asm dump are ugly and sometimes insecure, im picky and pragmatic what can i say