If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.

And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.