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.
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| 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
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| "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.
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Kernel_Rate_of_Change
The future of Linux: what it means for Wikipedia
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| 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.
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| 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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