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[News] Linux Release Cycles Get It Right

Be it resolved: release and revise is the way to go

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| Be it resolved that the most effective IT development strategies for
| systems in which some level of error is considered tolerable depend on
| having users test prototypes and are best implemented through the
| "release early, release often" strategy pioneered at UCB for the BSD
| Unix releases and later honed for the internet age by Linus Torvalds
| et al.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=821

Even Microsoft recently decided to adopt the same method, admitting it got it
wrong. It seems unlikely, however, that it;ll be able to do so with such a
monolithic O/S. Also yesterday:

Kernel Space: paravirt_ops considered harmful?

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| As more virtualization support enters stock Linux, kernel developers
| debate the standards that will let old kernels run as guests of new ones. 
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/032007-kernel.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news

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