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KernelTrap Interviews Andrea Arcangeli

Posted by timothy on from the not-your-ordinary-attic-dweller dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Andrea Arcangeli completely rewrote the 2.4 Linux kernel virtual memory subsystem several years ago, a surprising event during the evolution of a stable kernel series. A very intelligent 27-year-old from Italy, Andrea spoke with KernelTrap in great detail about the past, present and future of his Linux kernel efforts. An interesting interview ."

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  1. Surprise by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux hacker : Age 27 : lives with in parents house.

    Who'd've thunk it, eh?

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    1. Re:Surprise by nathanhart · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey the rents cheap, the foods free and only once or twice a day you have to answer one of their computer questions

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    2. Re:Surprise by KarmaPolice · · Score: 5, Informative

      Linux hacker : Age 27 : lives with in parents house.

      Who'd've thunk it, eh?
      Actually, most italian men live with their parents until they get married.

    3. Re:Surprise by CharAznable · · Score: 5, Insightful

      In many countries, it's customary to live with your parents until you get married and move away. That's how it is in Costa Rica, where I'm from. I wouldn't be surprised that Italy is the same way, them being so family oriented.

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  2. RTFA by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Andrea spoke with KernelTrap in great detail about the past, present and future of his Linux kernel efforts.

    Sorry, looks like she's a he. I was really hoping it would turn out to be a chick - chicks that can rewrite Linux components are extremely sexy.

  3. Higher education yes, degree no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    He has higher education, he just doesn't have the degree. The article indicates that he learned a great deal from his college courses.

    A degree gets you an interview. What you learned gets you the job. AA skipped the interview step ;-)

  4. EEK! by NicolaiBSD · · Score: 5, Funny
    The parallel port was the device I knew best in the PC hardware because for the final exam at high school we developed an autorange (from a few millivolt to thousand of volts) digital oscilloscope (designing both hardware and software) and I was acquiring the data from the 8 bits output of the ADC using the parallel port in nibble mode with a multiplexer with x86 inline assembler in a C++ program.

    If you understand this sentence you know you're a geek.

    1. Re:EEK! by KJE · · Score: 5, Informative

      When I read this all I could think of was that I wish I had gone to his highschool.

  5. That Sheila's a he! by RoloDMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Poor Andrea, now he is going to get slashdotted by a bunch of lonely geeks that didn't RTFA, and think that he is a she.

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  6. Mod Parent Up by sonpal · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Andrea did some cool stuff. How come our high schools don't teach us how to:

    Live off the land

    Modify our cars

    Hack computers

    Understand personal finance

    Write contracts

    Defend ourselves in court

    Defend ourselves physically

    Handle a gun safely

    Think critically

    Change our government for the better

    It seems to me that too much focus is given to understanding the past and not enough to understanding the present. Don't get me wrong, knowing the past is valuable, but I think that if we teach people about the present, people are naturally going to be interested in the past.

    In general, people don't need to know how to calculate the area under a curve. But everyone needs to know how to think critically and not be manipulated.