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Top Linux Developers Losing the Will To Code?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the will-hack-for-food dept.

E5Rebel noted that Don Marti has a piece that talks about "Core Linux developers are finding themselves managing and checking, rather than coding, as the number of kernel contributors grows and the contributor network becomes more complex."

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  1. Book needed by jshriverWVU · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    There really needs to be a howto or book on how to write a linux device driver. I feel even more people would be willing to help out if they had a bridge between "just learn C" to "you're now a kernel guru"

    Granted if you're a good enough programmer you can traverse the source tree and pick up things on your own, but that is very time consuming versus "here's a quick overview" then look at the code for specifics.

  2. Re:Git by CarpetShark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OS X seemed like a good idea once. I even bought an iBook for that. After actually trying to get a decent workflow setup on it, my iBook runs KDE now :)

  3. Microkernel by zymano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    minix.