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.
This guy needs a beer before trying to give a talk. How to not give a presentation! Quit moving around. Quit waving your hands, you're not steve jobs. Quit rambling. Write out the presentation.
inakus(November 19, 2008 at 12:30 am)
wow, that guy that looks like kevin smith looks like a real cunt..
OneNation2525(November 18, 2008 at 10:41 am)
Cut off IBM , mean IBM is putting alot of Biometrics in the Code and that is a Big Problem
someman7(November 12, 2008 at 8:54 pm)
I have no idea. All I know is that it allways happens when the window border is moving extensively. And by window border, I mean it alone. For example, when you minimize a window, you should see a black one. With xvidcap, when you select the area, the frame is red. So if I resize that red thing quickly or if it exceeds a certain height/width, the sys freezes. Next time I'll look at the logs :-)
Iminurcomputorz(November 12, 2008 at 8:24 pm)
Heh, strange. Isn't there any error file in xorg? I haven't had any GUI related crashes so I haven't poked around there so much.Incorporating everything in the kernel might be fast, but it's on the expense of stability and security, something I don't like.
someman7(November 12, 2008 at 6:56 pm)
Actually, on GNU/Linux, my system freezes when my display driver fails (BSD too). Why? I don't know. I should be able to get tty, but I don't. BSOD won't go from win, since they incorporate display GUI in kernel (it is fast tho). But if you go to wiki, you'll get Win NT kernel is hybrid. That's meaningless. Hybrid means nothing. That's probably 90% monolithic&10% micro-like. Everything is "hybrid". But I was talking about real hybrids. Linux is closer, but I meant those more micro-like ones.
Iminurcomputorz(November 12, 2008 at 6:36 pm)
I don't have too much knowledge of the Windows core, but I think it's an extreme example of a monolithic kernel (Even IE is integrated in the kernel).BSOD's are caused by (usually) bugs in device drivers, whereas in Linux and *BSD, only the drivers fail, not the entire system.
someman7(November 12, 2008 at 4:39 pm)
I admit, Linux does its job very well in regards its architecture. To tell you the truth, it might be me reading some of what Tannenbaum says that got me thinking this way. I do see the logic in hybrid kernels*, especially the new designs. But projects fail... I don't like monopoly, and I think the microkernel architecture if planned carefully can make a _sort of_ an ultimate OS that may be modded in almost any imaginable way. *if Windows' core could be called one, then Linux certainly is one
Iminurcomputorz(November 12, 2008 at 9:46 am)
I agree that Linux is sort of the "monopoly" in the open source world, other projects doesn't get as much attention as Linux.I recon you have tried a microkernel OS, if so, is it good? As I understand it, multitasking is a bit more "difficult" (In the terms of speed and stability).
Though I really like the idea that each device driver isn't included in the kernel itself, Linux and *BSD has traces of that (Graphic cardsfor instance).
bexy575(November 11, 2008 at 11:04 pm)
You were the one who replied to me. It is courteous to reply with a response.
horneyvirus(November 11, 2008 at 10:53 pm)
Leave me alone!!!
bexy575(November 11, 2008 at 10:43 pm)
GTFO means nothing to me. i tend to use proper english. not all that text nonsense.
How to not give a presentation!
Quit moving around.
Quit waving your hands, you're not steve jobs.
Quit rambling.
Write out the presentation.