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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:Will? by merreborn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Those mugs are lame. Especially because the string constant 'coffee.php' is unquoted on the PHP mugs.

  3. Losing the Wii to code... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sadly, this seems to be the trend. Initially, games are produced for the sake of fun and excitement. Yet as of late, game developers certainly seems to be getting lost in other aspects of development, such as coding. I hope this isn't the case for upcoming titles.

    Perhaps in writing response to what I want the article to say, I can, in fact, change the content of the article. Or at least humor myself.

  4. 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 :)

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

    minix.