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Looking At The Linux Kernel

Posted by Hemos on from the it's-like-2001-d00d! dept.

A reader writes: "Some folks from The Boston Consulting Group with OSDN have been working on creating a visual representation of the Linux Kernel. It's been put online, complete with instructions with how to read it, and how to make sense of the information." There's also some new code checked into the Free Code Graphing Project, which enabled this to project to come together (look at CVS) - let's see if we can get people to do it with things like *BSD, Apache and some of the other great projects out there. This is a continuation with the other work being done, like the OSS demographic work. (Note: Slashdot is part of OSDN.) Karim Lakhani, progenitor in many ways of the project also commented: "The kernelmap shows beautifully the inherent modularity of the Linux Kernel. We think modularity of the source code is one of the important strategic advantages that the Linux Community has and we wanted to move beyond a magnifying glass on the kernel map poster to make it browsable and to let the community add new features. We hope that this can become a tool for navigating the kernel and learning more about how it works. Rusty Russel and Martin Pool did an incredible job creating the map and transforming it into html."

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  1. I'd love to see a marketer put THAT up by dpbsmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    on a whiteboard. You know, the guys that love to draw rectangles and clouds and arrows and boxes sitting on top of other boxes and call it an "architecture."

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  2. Suggestions by undeg+chwech · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) Have the key readable at all levels of zoom

    2) Do it before the /. effect worsens

    Otherwise, all I'm looking at is some coloured boxes.

  3. I'll be damned by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Funny

    There really is a penguin at the center of the kernel!

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    1. Re:I'll be damned by Elbereth · · Score: 4, Funny

      Would that make Linus the soul of the kernel? Nyarlinusthotep?

  4. Microsoft Kernel Visualization: #@ +1; Informative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


    1. Obtain standard ball of string

    2. Unravel ball of string

    3. Place unravelled string in washing machine

    4. Standard wash without soap

    5. Tumble dry

  5. The great question is..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now that slashdot has slashdotted its parent OSDN, will slashdot slashdot it self as well

  6. Markitecture by ry4an · · Score: 4, Funny

    We always called those Markitecture diagrams. They love it. Trust me.

  7. Wow! by DeltaSigma · · Score: 5, Funny

    I finally found something more overwhelming than HTML 4.01 (transitional) validation of Microsoft's website.

  8. Re:Microsoft Kernel Visualization: #@ +1; Informat by ralmeida · · Score: 2, Funny

    6. ???

    7. Profit!

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  9. Map scale by Alsee · · Score: 3, Funny

    As I zoomed in on the kernal map, I couldn't help rephrasing a Steven Wright joke:

    I have a map of the Linux kernal...

    the scale is one line equals one line.

    (The original joke was: I have a map of the United States... the scale is one mile equals one mile.)

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  10. My God! by bLanark · · Score: 2, Funny

    My God, it's full of Tux!

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