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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. 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.