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[News] Free Software and the Question of Speed

  • Subject: [News] Free Software and the Question of Speed
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:00:39 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Open source and the need for speed

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| Enterprise technology development and improvement rarely takes place as 
| quickly as most IT managers would like, but blaming that lack of speed on the 
| inherent complexity of the problems involved can sometimes be a lazy 
| knee-jerk reaction.   
| 
| I was reminded of this last week at linux.conf.au, during a presentation by 
| Andrew Tridgell on the development of clustering capabilities in Samba, the 
| wildly popular open source package which (in ridiculously simple terms) makes 
| file system communication between Windows and Linux boxes possible.    
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/blogs/snorage/soa/Open-source-and-the-need-for-speed/0,2000064373,339285684,00.htm

"One person in Helsinki can quickly write the core of a sophisticated operating
system."

                                    --John Warden, lead attorney at Microsoft

Linus evolves extremely fast.


Recent:

Kernel Rate of Change

,----[ Quote ]
| "I re-ran some statistics the other day on our kernel development rate, and 
| changed my formula after Andrew accused me of severely undercounting the rate 
| of change," noted Greg KH during a discussion about the stability of the 
| Linux kernel while undergoing significant changes.    
`----

http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Kernel_Rate_of_Change


The future of Linux: what it means for Wikipedia

,----[ Quote ]
| Kernel release 2.6.24 came out on January 24, just before linux.conf.au 
| began. Corbet estimates 2.6.25 will be finalised sometime around April. 
| 
| That rapid cycle represents an astonishing volume of new code. "We are adding 
| about 2000 lines of code to the kernel every single day of the year, without 
| exception," Corbet said. "Nobody can really keep up with this [on their own] 
| any more. It's an amazing process, and it seems to be working."   
| 
| The project which those numbers immediately bring to mind is Wikipedia, which 
| uses similar open source principles, along with an "anyone can contribute" 
| ethos.  
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http://apcmag.com/7924/the_future_of_the_linux_kernel_and_what_it_tells_us_about_wikipedia

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