w2k bugs

[tjones@anti-social.com]

I've already seen a .sig that mentions this little problem of
M$'s:

'-- Win2k: "It's not so much that it's only 65,000 bugs, it's
just that they stopped at 65,535 to prevent an overflow." - Mazel#Tov'

TJ


--- Original Message ---
"der.hans" <PLUGd@lufthans.com> Wrote on 
Sun, 13 Feb 2000 12:08:09 -0700 (MST)
 ------------------ 
moin, moin,

I really have been trying to not bash non-Open Source OSes, but
some
things are just rediculous.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2436920,00.html?chkpt=zdnnstop

When reading you'll find that there are over 65000 potential
issues, but
many of them are wishlist items, e.g. not really bugs. Debian
also tracks
wishlist items with it's bugtracking system.

The article says that 28000 of the bugs are 'likely to be "real"
problems.' That's just nuts. Also, it's just the OS, not all
of the apps.

Debian appears to currently have 10581 bugs (line count of the
full list
of currently open bugs). This includes wish list features. This
is for the
full Debian OS, which has somewhere near 4000 packages.

Their bugtracking system is into the 50000s now. So they've solved
over
40000 bugs. I don't think this is specific to the current release
as you
can also report bugs against the old release as well as the just
opened
alpha distribution.

Debian's got about 75 critical bugs, just over 300 grave bugs,
about 1150
important bugs, almost 20000 normal bugs and almost 7000 wishlist
bugs.

There are almost 2850 listed in the pending fixed category. I
don't know
how long they stay there before being dropped.

No clue how to check the other dists.

Again the power of Open Source allows me to get in and try to
fix any of
those bugs I wish to :).

ciao,

der.hans
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