More Marcelo Tosatti

Frank writes: "There's an interview over at developerWorks Linux Zone with Linus's latest lieutenant Marcelo Tosatti. He talks about what it takes to be the maintainer of the Linux kernel, what his plans are for 2.4 and his favorite hack." If you missed it, you may also want to visit the answers Marcelo gave to Slashdot readers.

Comments

Re:Alan Cox is free

[anpe]

Actually, he still mantains 2.2 series

Hurd - would you really use it presently ?

[kybernator]

...for anything else than testing and playing around?

from http://kerneltrap.com/node.php?id=5

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Q: How usable is the Hurd in its current version?

Neal Walfield: There has not been an official release of the Hurd since 1997. Most of the developers are concentrating on finishing the current feature set and working out important bugs.

With respect to usability, the Hurd works quite well as a desktop system, however, I would not yet recommend it to anyone as a server.

Q: How big is the team of people currently working on the Hurd?

Neal Walfield: There are currently about five people who work actively on the Hurd proper. As far as porting is concerned, there are about fifteen developers who participate regularly.

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on the other hand, they integrated quite a lot of rather mature work from what has clearly been linux orientated development efforts, like filesystems, drivers and such - I wonder if RMS will call the final product GNU/Linux/HURD... :-)

Who is Marcelo Tosatti?

[rtos]

Who is Marcelo Tosatti? Well, I'm glad you asked.

• Marcelo Tosatti's homepage is here.
• There is also the Marcelo The Wonder Penguin site that has some info about him, but is currently down (Google cache).
• Advogato personal info
• Slashdot interview from December.
• Freshmeat has his comments on the kernel (scroll down a bit).

Hopefully you find some of that to be interesting.