Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel

Google Tech Talks
June, 5 2008

ABSTRACT

The Linux Kernel, who is developing it, how they are doing it,
and why you should care.

This talk describes the rate of development for the Linux
kernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such a
large and diverse developer population and huge rate of change.
It will detail who is doing the work, and what companies, if
any, are sponsering it. Finally, it will go into why companies
like Google, and any other that uses or depends on Linux, should
care about this development. Lots of numbers and pretty graphs
will be shown to keep the audience awake.

Speaker: Greg Kroah Hartman
Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel maintainer for the USB,
driver core, sysfs, and debugfs portions of the kernel as well
as being one half of the -stable kernel release team. He
currently works for Novell as a Fellow doing various kernel
related things and has written a few books from O'Reilly about
Linux development in the past.

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[Gyula Juhász]

at 33:34 you can read this on the screen: "WTF are you doing reading this" xD

[Jan Tichavský]

It's worse than you think. In Linux you can fix something yourself but in Windows you don't have the chance. Don't get it wrong, the patches get reviewed, tested and signed. Linux enthusiasts are usually well educated folks, don't think about them as second class people.

[qwc991]

I just want to thank all the developers of Linux, even the ones who did only tiny things for this project. You people are amazing.

[drkamilz]

Change the title as "Sgt. Hartman vs Linux Kernel", heheh.

[Brian Smiley]

Damn that dude must have been sitting down for the longest time...look at those wrinkles in his shirt lol. Long live Linux and open-source free the world from not being able to customize everything on a OS like Winblowz :(

[thentrav]

What's the difference between andrew morton's tree (i think its -mm) and stephen rothwell's -next? frequency of release?

[ShadowriverUB]

There only around 25.000 lines diffrence (btw there more changes in power managment), but most other features works the same, mainline updates effects Android, lot of manufactures submit patches for android use right to mainline (for example latest Samsung's F2FS file system support). No to mention there project that target is to bring features added in Android patch set for kernel to mainline, so it's only matter of time when android will run on mainline kernel.

[Andy Harglesis]

Not Android; Google and the Android Open Source project modified the kernel for some of their multi-touch features on their smartphones and tablets.

[tiocsti]

it's xnu, which is mach + bsd (bsd part is based on freebsd)

[ShadowriverUB]

Which practicly all of them are the same :p

[ShadowriverUB]

It's not there fault that technology goes that fast ;p they need to support new hardware new technologies and they need to optimize and fix in same time.

[ShadowriverUB]

They use there fork of BSD called Darwin which is also used in OS X