Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel
Google Tech Talks June, 5 2008 ABSTRACT The Linux Kernel, who is developing it, how they are doing it, and why you should care. This talk describes the rate of development for the Linux kernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such a large and diverse developer population and huge rate of change. It will detail who is doing the work, and what companies, if any, are sponsering it. Finally, it will go into why companies like Google, and any other that uses or depends on Linux, should care about this development. Lots of numbers and pretty graphs will be shown to keep the audience awake. Speaker: Greg Kroah Hartman Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel maintainer for the USB, driver core, sysfs, and debugfs portions of the kernel as well as being one half of the -stable kernel release team. He currently works for Novell as a Fellow doing various kernel related things and has written a few books from O’Reilly about Linux development in the past.
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grow bigger, get faster, invent better. WOHOO
anything will run under “the kernel”,,,
The Unix desing philosophy guys!!!
Linux has some modularity, but its not fully modular, you could apply modularity to a monolithic Kernel, maybe in the future it could be fully, but that means a bigger change to it, recoding madness.
About Hurd, i think that if their development team choosed a change in his development style and some goals, maybe Linux never existed like today .
I start to believe that xD…
There’s no stopping Linux !
Grow bigger, yes, in source code.
But the compiled kernel can still boot on a 1.4MB floppy.
*YOU* are the worthless piece of crap
Well said…. Novell is evil
Who the hell is Google?
If there were no patent laws on coding, it would have crushed everything !!!
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Really enjoyed this talk. This gives me a whole ‘nother prespective at the cores of Linux distros I’ve used and contributed to. I’d like to see a similar presentation of the GNU codebase that comes with GNU/Linux.
at first I was thinking “god.. 50min… I’m not going to listen to all this crap” but then it turned out to interesting to miss lol
Hah, I’m not the only one who noticed
This was a great keynote!
I went ahead and downloaded latest kernel and compiled it and posted it to my GRUB and tried botting from it.
IT WORKED!!
All I had to do was download the NVIDIA linux driver and voila! I am in!!
I am going to be tinkering with the kernel and contribute!!
i think Linux is the only hope for developed countries to contribute in the field of IT and stop the evil companies such MS from dominating the this field …
true
“The future will be open.”
Currently, I’m a Mac user. But, my next computer will probably be a Linux based Computer (I don’t know which distro just yet… maybe Mandriva or OpenSuse, or Ubuntu… there are so many good distros out there!)
Go Linux!
@medoelkorsan Well there is also *BSD but yeah. You’re probably right.
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The unknown folks are Microsoft employees… They’re sick of Windows. Heheh..
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what sucks is that #linus torlvalds takes all the credit ,just like real life jobs the worker ants do all the hard part and the boss takes the credit