Zack Brown Taking a Break

Jon Dowland writes "Zack Brown's once-weekly Kernel Traffic summary of happenings on the linux kernel mailing list, is now on indefinite hiatus. From the announcement: 'Kernel Traffic has become more and more difficult over the years. From an average of 5 megs of email per week in 1999, the Linux kernel mailing list has gradually increased its traffic to 13 megs per week in 2005. Condensing that into 50 or 100 K of summaries each week has started to take more time than I have to give.' Fear not, because we still have kerneltrap and Linux Weekly News, amongst others. Zack still writes a regularly Kernel column for Linux Magazine and occasionally in others such as the UK Linux Format."

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Re:And people wonder why there's a market for Wind

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OK, for those who didn't get it: Windows admins and developers don't get to participate in a daily Windows "Kernel" thread. So...they avoid having to read 13 megs of stuff each week

Most Linux admins don't read the linux-kernel archives. Neither do most Linux developers in the sense that is analagous to Windows developers. The list is for people actually contributing to kernel development; people just developing software that runs on Linux don't normally read it.

There are some edge-cases of software applications that depend on kernel internals (libc is a good example), but those are analagous to interal Windows DLLs distributed with Windows.

Essentially, the people on linux-kernel are analagous to internal Microsoft developers and those few users who sign up for Microsoft beta testing/debugging. Presumably those people have mailing lists or other discussion areas to follow in the MS world.