Rusty Russell Quotes
This page is here in honor of Rusty Russell, one of the funniest Linux kernel developers EVER
Here are some Rusty Russell quotes:
- Well, you don't get to be a kernel hacker simply by looking good in Speedos. (source: http://lwn.net/Articles/67165/)
- Rusty has had this in his e-mail signature:
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell
- Rusty has also had this in his e-mail signature:
There are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy
- Rusty often has problems with his last name being mispelled:
In looking through dev.c, I noticed that someone had misspelled my name at the top of the file, so I sent a quick patch off to Alan and Linus: From: Rusty Russell <rusty@linuxcare.com.au> To: torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: [PATCH] Trivial name typo. Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:24:07 +1100 Just noticed this... 2.2 and 2.3. This Russel disease must be stamped out before it becomes widespread. Rust. --- linux-2.2/net/core/dev.c.~1~ Sun Dec 5 13:24:45 1999 +++ linux-2.2/net/core/dev.c Thu Dec 23 15:20:21 1999 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ * Adam Sulmicki : Bug Fix : Network Device Unload * A network device unload needs to purge * the backlog queue. - * Paul Rusty Russel : SIOCSIFNAME + * Paul Rusty Russell : SIOCSIFNAME */ #include <asm/uaccess.h>