Tech News World : The Kernel Bug, the Missing Patch and the 6-Years-Later Fix

~"It just goes to show that not all distros are alike, and that all code can be expected to contain bugs," asserted Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson. "The kernel has held up better than Ivory Soap. Like Ivory Soap, the kernel is 'pure enough' for most purposes, most of the time." Bottom line: "This incident hasn't altered my confidence in linux."~  ~ Katherine Noyes

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/The-Kernel-Bug-the-Missing-Patch-and-the-6-Years-Later-Fix-70714.html

Well, this is a bit interesting to me anyway. All this talk about Windows and MAC OS and now we actually find out that Linux has a few kinks to work out and that this one took six years to actually do something about. Meh! I understand that all OS have problems and limits, but I just find it amusing that this hole has been open for 6 years and no one actually plugged it up. Not that someone had not made a patch for it, just no one implemented it. Hmmmm....