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2.4 Kernel Maintainer Marcelo Tosatti Interviewed
Jeremy Andrews writes "KernelTrap has an interview with Marcelo Tosatti. Marcelo became the maintainer of the 2.4 stable kernel when he was 18 years old, releasing his first kernel, 2.4.16, on November 26'th of 2001. Two years later, he recently released 2.4.23 and plans to soon put the 2.4 stable kernel tree into maintenance mode, only addressing bugs and security issues. Living in Brazil, Marcelo currently works for Cyclades Corporation. In this interview he looks at how he became the 2.4 maintainer, the challenges involved, and brings us up to date with the current status of the 2.4 kernel."
he basically integrates newer features and patches. Big deal. He's a QFE (quick fix engineer). He doesnt actually do the features, he just is an integrator and patcher.
We dont run 2.4 kernels so we are ok. We run a real platform for critical systems. Linux is nowhere near them in any shape or form with guranteed uptimes and support.
we were beginning to tire of all these corepirate nazi shills telling us that 'stuff that matters' is about .asphyxiating/deleting all of you hobbyist dogooders buy 'law', so that we could all be payper liesense stock markup FraUD billyonerrors again?
yOUR question, although not directly related to colonel promotion/maintainence, is of interest to at least won of us, so here goes:
have you joined robbIE's gnu dating service yet? &, if so, have you any information as to the existence/legitimacy of the won-eyed girl in the jump-you ads?
one more question:
we're not promoting our colonels until all the shysterious phonIE litigatory h00plah dIEs DOWn. do you have any notion when that might be? thanks?
Guys -- If you're looking for a female kernel hacker who's thirty-to-fifty pounds overweight, smells a bit of Big Mac Secret Sauce, and always speaks with a volume two ticks higher than it should be, then the OSDN personals pages are for you.
Well done, michael et al! Keep on adding value to the OSDN!
Our company has NT4 boxen and Linux boxen. The NT4 ones are nicely patched and upto date, and have had an uptime for over a year now. The Linux ones usually need a reboot every months because of some random kernel panic. Despite what slashbots claim, Linux is in no way a operating system you can rely on. Think about it. Microsoft Wouldn't be the biggest company in the world if it made crap like Linux.
I thought he was gay. Anyway, it's nice to hear he stopped using drugs.
If you want boxes that simply cannot go down, you are using the wrong platform. Linux isn't it.
Pretend all you want, its not the right choice for critical systems. You don't fool me.
Would you trust your business to an 18 year old hippie with rasta curls, living in a terrorist development country?