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Linux Turns 10
An AC sent in: "The IBM PC may be 20 years old, but they're not the only ones with a birthday coming up. Check out www.linux10.org for an invitation to a birthday party on August 25 for the Linux kernel. The big bash is in Sunnyvale, just down the peninsula from the San Francisco LinuxWorld Expo, but there are also links to local parties around the globe (or if there are none near you, plan your own and add it to the list)."
Users never interface with the kernel at all.
/lib/drivers and maybe run initdriver (Ot whatever) without having to worry about symbol mismatches, or what version of the kernel they are running and if they will have to build their own modules from source.
How about when the user is attempting to install a kernel module? I'd say thats as close to "interfacing with the kernel" as a user would get.
Given that definition, kernel modules suck as a solution. If there is any one thing that should be done for Linux 3.0, it should be to define a proper set of API's for drivers, and to abstract the kernel structures from the drivers. Users should be able to drop a driver in
How about that?
...and everyone that is a part of the open source community, including "mere" users. In ten years we have come further than any comparable OS in that same amount of time. Remember, this isn't ten years since Linux 1.0 - this is ten years since the project was announced _at all_.
What's most amazing is that we've done it all on our own sweat, blood and tears. We've created something for ourselves (and others) that is powerful, useful, and has shaped the world of technology (and thus the world in general) in many important ways. All of it was for just one goal: to create something cool.
Congratulations, everyone!