21-year-old Polish Woman Fixed a 20-year-old Linux Bug!

https://itsfoss.com/news/kamila-enlightenment-e16-bug/

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NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 164 pts · 121d (4 replies)

You could say she added some Polish to it.

I'll see myself out.

J92@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 121d

She Polish-ed it off.

BruisedMoose@piefed.social · 16 pts · 121d

30-some years ago while driving around town, one of my buddies sees a car wash sign and completely seriously is like "What the hell is a car Polish?" We all just about died from laughter and still bring it up regularly.

FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 10 pts · 121d

Please sign my T-shirt!!!!!

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 118d

That's her pierogitave.

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 126 pts · 121d

Okay, not a Linux bug in the kernel, but one that has existed in the Enlightenment window manager E16 since 2006

😐

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 87 pts · 121d (1 reply)

I imagine her being annoyed as a baby but being taken from the computer by her parents. Thus a lifelong resentment of computers and Linux had formed until she finally was able to overcome it and fix the bug.

BestBouclettes@jlai.lu · 13 pts · 121d

The foss equivalent of getting hired to fix a bug and resign immediately

ICastFist@programming.dev · 67 pts · 121d

After digging through the codebase, Kamila traced the freeze back to the way E16 handled overly long file names. When a window title was too long and needed to be truncated, the algorithm responsible for doing so had no iteration limit. So it would spin indefinitely, locking up the desktop entirely.

Ah, no wonder it went unfixed for so long, most people would just rename stuff and carry on

graynk@discuss.tchncs.de · 61 pts · 121d

Her blog is worth a read: https://iczelia.net/

gru54777@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 121d (3 replies)

Not kernel

Bananskal@nord.pub · 2 pts · 121d (2 replies)

Happy cake day!

lol, down voting someone who is trying to be nice to someone else. Oh, Internet, you'll never change šŸ˜„

VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 121d (1 reply)

I guess if the account is created today it's still a cake day !

Bananskal@nord.pub · 2 pts · 120d

Yaay, mazel tov!

20cello@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 121d

Legend

GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 121d (1 reply)
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NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 120d

It’s not DNS filenames

There’s no way it’s DNS filenames

It was DNS filenames

napkin2020@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 120d (1 reply)

POLAND MENTIONED

sureshot0@discuss.online · 1 pts · 118d

Should I move to Poland? My government keeps publicly threatening to send me to an extermination camp and moving to Poland worked out for one of my relatives in this exact circumstance once before.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 17 pts · 121d (1 reply)

Why are the polish kicking so much Foss ass in the past years?

nailbar@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 120d

Polishing the code just comes naturally to them, see

schema@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 121d

Man, i remember when I first manged to properly install enlightenment on SUSE. I knew almost nothing about linux. It was just pure trial and error from dependencies to proper drivers. I felt so proud when I finally got it working.

Grass@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 121d

I wouldn't call a de bug a linux bug. Enlightenment is so niche at this point I don't think anyone would have even found the bug if not for her.

Archer@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 121d (1 reply)

I can’t scroll this site without getting floating popups for Comcast in Spanish. It’s so annoying having to turn on Adblock for the shit tier sites

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 34 pts · 121d

Adblock is always on. Why would you have it off by default?

rimu@piefed.social · 5 pts · 121d (3 replies)

Anyone know what that theme is? https://itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/04/desktop-e16-2.png

and if there's a KDE equivalent...

graynk@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 121d (1 reply)
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 120d

Attempting to seduce me romantically will end poorly for you. Attempting to convince me to work on your blockchain or webdev projects will end even worse.

Based

mech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 121d

I didn't, but I spent 5 minutes to research, and it's the BlueSteel theme.
It isn't available on KDE.

sleepmode@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 121d

Enlightenment was always intriguing to me but man was it buggy and a hog on my ā€œi found this lil guy in a skidā€ class computers. Has it gotten better ?