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Video Interview With Linus On Linux 2.7
daria42 writes "ZDNet Australia has put up a video interview of Linux creator Linus Torvalds talking about the kernel development process, explaining why the unexpected resilience of kernel version 2.6 has delayed the move to 2.7." From the interview: "One of the original worries was that we would not be able to make big changes within the confines of the development model... I always said that if there is something so fundamental that everything will break then we will start at 2.7 at that point... We have been able to do fairly invasive things even while not actually destabilizing the kernel... Having stable and unstable in parallel: I think it used to be a great model, and I think we may see that the kernel has actually become more mature and stable and it just doesn't seem to be that great a model, for the kernel."
Flash 8 has been shown to destabilize the 2.6 kernel... Supposedly it will play nicely with the 2.7 kernel, though.
Having stable and unstable in parallel: I think it used to be a great model
It certainly works when dual-booting.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Does it contain anything inflammatory about the GPL v3? If not, I'm not interested. :]
Maybe he uses the user agent switcher to work around broken websites, you insensitive... logged in user
I installed, and even rebooted my laptop, for that Genuine Windows feel, and video still no worky-worky. Is this an elaborate prank?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
And considering that's the platform Torvalds develops on, you'd think they could at least release the video in a format he could watch from his own computer
Duh! Everyone knows Mr. Trovalds develops on a PPC/Linux machine but his home machine is still a Wintel one
*runs*
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'