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.
Linus TorvaldsYou can do a lot of things with git, and many of the rules of what you *should* do are not so much technical limitations but are about what works well when working together with other people. So git is a very powerful set of tools.
Linus TorvaldsIf you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.
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