[ilug-cal] [ArticleLink] Is Linux about to fork?

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhay]

Linux could be about to fork. In a worrying parallel to the issue that 
stopped Unix becoming a mass-market product in the 1980s - leaving the 
field clear for Microsoft - a recent open source conference saw a 
leading Linux kernel developer predict that there could soon be two 
versions of the Linux kernel.

Each version of the kernel requires applications to be compiled 
specifically for it. Today, only one Linux kernel is current but Andrew 
Morton, lead maintainer of the Linux kernel for Open Source Development 
Labs (OSDL), said that he expects the 2.7 version of the platform to 
fork to accommodate large patch sets.

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