Distros Don’t Drive Development
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| Lots of press and people focus on Linux distributions when they check out
| what happens in Linux land. This and that distro come in new releases and
| they offer this and that brand new feature. This is also true of the many
| linux podcasts. They give credit to distros for new things that pop up.
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http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2007/10/28/distros-dont-drive-development/
How very true. A distro maintained by 3 people can be build from the work of
100,000. Meanwhile, the kernel -- the Linux 'bread and butter' -- keeps
improving.
Removing the i386 and x86_64 Directories
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| "This series kill the old i386 and x86_64 directories. The relevant files are
| moved and adapted and Kconfig.debug was consolidated (thanks to Randy)," Sam
| Ravnborg said, describing a set of 6 patches to finish the migration of
| physical files into the new x86 architecture directory.
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Removing_the_i386_and_x86_64_Directories
Less Rigid Maintainership Structure
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| He [Linus] noted that git is an excellent tool for spreading out maintenance,
| then added, "but even without something like that, I think it's much better
| to try to find people you can trust, rather than strict maintainership
| boundaries."
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Less_Rigid_Maintainership_Structure
Related:
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 b
| 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
Only minor upgrades for Linux
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| Included as well are early experimental components such as the EXT4
| file system, which is an evolution of the currently popular EXT3
| file system.
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http://www.star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2006/11/28/prodit/16095637&sec=prodit
First benchmarks of the ext4 file system
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| The ext4 file system promises improved data integrity
| and performance, together with less limitations, and is
| definitely the step in the right way. Even if there are
| some regressions in our measurements, when compared to
| ext3, they're quite small and no doubt will be fixed
| before the development is finished. On the other hand,
| under some workloads ext4 is already showing much better
| results.
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http://linux.inet.hr/first_benchmarks_of_the_ext4_file_system.html
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