[Hydraulix989]

I might add that the difference between a hacked together kernel and the Linux kernel is HUGE. "Hacked together" projects are full of weird bugs, incorrect concurrent code that still works 99+% of the time but then rarely crashes and burns when that ill-anticipated failure case execution interleaving randomly strikes -- to say nothing of problematic and unrefined UX. Well-designed projects are a work of beauty.

[ForHackernews]

> full of weird bugs, incorrect concurrent code that still works 99+% of the time but then rarely crashes and burns when that ill-anticipated failure case execution interleaving randomly strikes -- to say nothing of problematic and unrefined UX.

That sounds like an accurate description of 95% of existent software in the world.

[smaddox]

Closer to 99.99999999%, i would estimate.