Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Linux Summit: Forget Microsoft. Let's Get Back To Development
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> | "We add 2,000 lines of code a day to the Linux kernel. We work on
> | 2,800 lines of code a day. I've never seen the pace of change that
> | Linux has shown," said kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, citing
> | the accelerated pace on the open source operating system.
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> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199904052
>
> Microsoft has sped it up instead of stalling it. What a shame. They drive
> away their supporters to the open source world.
A pity they cant concentrate on power management which is totally hosed
in Linux at the moment.
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| Audience members also questioned whether Linux kernel developers had
| overlooked power-saving features, such as suspend/resume functions in
| device drivers. With the option of invoking a suspend or resume command,
| third-party developers could build power-saving features into
| applications. Andrew Morton, a key lieutenant of Torvalds as the 2.6
| kernel maintainer, conceded that Linux has fallen behind in that green
| computing effort. "Our view of power management is that you can have two
| states: on or off. Other manufacturers recognize that there are lots of
| intermediate states," Morton said.
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That and combining efforts to help stop the bad impression Linux gives
the real world about Distro hell and dispersed ownership
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| Business users also had their complaints. Bank of America senior VP Tim
| Golden said Linux vendors could do a better job of combining their
| support efforts. When he has a problem with a Linux application, the six
| parties that each have a role, from the operating system vendor to the
| middleware and database vendors, "have no reason to try to help. It's a
| real goat rodeo," Golden said. "You get a different type of response
| from a single-vendor play."
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When things like this get addressed more people will be encouraged to
try Linux.
--
Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse
for some of the brain-damages of minix.
(Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum)
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