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Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks (www.phoronix.com)
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[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

hardware is like your computer, stuff like the cpu and ram. software is like the programs on that computer. linus torvalds makes a program that has to deal with the details of the computer (the linux kernel). as such, they have to work around problems in the hardware.

[-] wulrus@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Thanks for the unappreciated ELI2

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