Linux Tyro said the following on 12/08/2011 08:49 AM:
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Anton Aylward
wrote: And even those who are - programmers - might not know abut al the variety of possible boot media, layouts, intricacies of the Intel and other chip internals, memory management architectures and all those other low-level details that are involved with bootstrapping an OS.
In fact I'd be worried if any of the programmers I've known in my years, even those versed in assembler, were to be let loose on something so fundamental.
And yes don't forget that those who created Grub Legacy were programmers and thus was made suse.
What makes you think all programmers are equally capable in all languages and with all technological focuses? What makes you think that people's interests stay the same over a long period of time? You are making a LOT of assumptions that have little correspondence with reality. -- A little inaccuracy can save tons of explanation. -- Saki -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org