On Friday 30 November 2007, andy wrote: > Torvalds on Where Linux Is Headed in 2008
I read the article when it was published, but I didn't see anything surprising. Linus has long said that the direction Linux takes has to do with who is using it and working on it rather than taking the desired direction of his own choice. These days his major role is actually for merging code that is worked on by others, although I heard he also authored about 8% of the patches this year. And no, he does not rank #1, but again that's not surprising. Some of the movies available from talks at LinuxWorld are a bit more meaty -- I've been slowly watching those. There are two Linux kernel driver talks given by Greg K-H that definitely has some good quotes; like the tiny one-page "hello world" driver example he shows for Linux takes 700KB static to do on Windows. [Thats in the last movie in the list.] And the fact that the big complaint that Linux doesn't have a stable ABI is bogus, because no other kernel on the market does, either. There's a pretty good Git + Quilt talk by James Bottomley, too. Got the link from a posting on LKML. http://www.linuxworld.com/video/?bcpid=1138309735&bclid=1213841149&bctid=1221911905 -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
