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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. Re:You What!! by BokLM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While DJB has interesting ideas sometimes, his software are not open source, and he's stuck with his ideas.
    Even if his software are in general of good quality, they have the same problems as other proprietary software and don't get integrated very well into the system.

    Look at this thread on the openbsd mailling list :
    http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/ports/0109/m sg00025.html

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