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Andrew Morton on Kernel Hacking

Posted by Hemos on from the smart-people-often-say-smart-things dept.

Susie Denmark writes "Linux Format has a brief interview with Andrew Morton, the maintainer of the Linux kernel 2.6 tree. Andrew discusses the debates behind revision control systems (the BitKeeper and CVS), new kernel features and his own -mm tree. Will the issue of using RCSes in the kernel tree ever die down? Does it really matter?"

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  1. He may be maintaining the 2.6 tree... by brilinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    But what does he know about 2.7!!??

  2. Wow by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm suprised he finds the time, given the heavy load of muck raking biographies that he manages to write.

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    1. Re:Wow by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Funny

      You should take tips from him on time management.
      your personal homepage is dead. http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~gowen/

      Yet Andrew manages to hold down a day job while researching and writing dozens of books about British celebrities.

      Less time posting on /. and browsing Amazon please.

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  3. Andrew... :) by ovit · · Score: 2, Funny

    I actually had the pleasure of working at the same company as Andrew a few years back...

    We didn't directly work together (he was, obviousley doing kernel stuff, and I was doing UI back then), but I used to invent excuses to go talk to him, just to try to soak up some of that kernel hacking aura...

    Must have worked somewhat since now I'm doing driver development!

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  4. No Beard? by Skiron · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that his picture - or the reporters mug shot?

    If so, then my first question would be:

    "Well Andrew, why haven't you got a hackers unruly beard then? Are you really a hacker?".

  5. Re:You What!! by Cramer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nope. That's no dream. For most of a decade, the entire thing was run from Linus' INBOX. Various other kernel developers used CVS (etc.), but Linus HATES CVS. (And I don't blame him one bit.)

  6. Re:You What!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes just say it Linux sucks, computers suck, da intraweb sucks....

    Time for an exokernel already! Linux is not as good as everyone thinks it is... but its sure better than anything else we have right now that is usable... and if you want my opinion GNU sucks. I really wished someone that could do things correctly like djb would start their own OS.

    There are only a dozen people in this generation that can do things correctly in the computer world, and djb happens to be one of them.

  7. Stinking font by po8 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Linux Format folks really need to change the default font for their webpages, which appears to be Tahoma. I just spent two minutes of my life trying to figure out what a "dustering filesystem" is. Found a Googlewhack, anyhow.