The Linux Weather Forecast

kwabbles writes "The Linux Foundation launched the Linux Weather Forecast yesterday. It features 'current conditions' for kernel development, a 'short-term forecast,' and a 'long-term forecast.' Now developers and organizations that want to see when certain implementations/fixes are planned can find answers at this informative and handy site."

Comments

Linux Climatologist

[MyLongNickName]

Although I cannot predict day to day fluctuations, I can say with a high degree of certainty that in 1000 years, Linux usage among the population will be around 62% with a 73 percentage point uncertainty. My models are never wrong.

Partly cloudy...

[Gonrada]

Partly cloudy with a slight chance of kernel panics.

Re:I don't think it means what you think it does.

[MyLongNickName]

If someone can read this more deeply and see the analogy, then please enlighten me!

You see, it's like a car with a banana in its radiator...

That's a flawed analogy.

[RealProgrammer]

The kernel is nothing like a car, with or without a banana in its radiator or anywhere else. I'm sorry, but that just doesn't describe the situation at all.

Imagine, if you will, a perfect state machine with N inputs and G(N) outputs, where each output is a Thorgen-Zeta function of all the inputs bounded by the radial square root of each of its eigenvalues. Clearly, the scope is integrable under N, which is probably what led you to your assumption. But where your car-fruit analogy falls down is in assuming that complete T-Z continuity with respect to time.

So a better analogy would be a car with a fish in its tailpipe, dripping maggots along the highway in the rain. Some of the maggots survive to become features, but some are squashed by schoolbuses full of sweaty cheerleaders.

Re:That's a flawed analogy.

[eln]

Yes, of course you're right, but I think if you reversed the polarity on the graviton fields around the vehicle, thus allowing the boson radiation to properly align with the tachyon pulse beam naturally generated by a properly seated banana, I think you'll find the OP's analogy is actually quite apt.

Re:That's a flawed analogy.

[Adambomb]

The day busloads of sweaty cheerleaders are within a kilometer of anything relating to Linux is the day the adoption rate breaks the gauge.

Re:That's a flawed analogy.

[SaDan]

No kidding! I'd love to adopt a sweaty cheerleader!

Wait... what?

Neato

[LordPhantom]

Cool.... now we can all shelter whenever there is a SEVERE LINUS WARNING.

Ah.

[RealProgrammer]

I can see that now. Yes, I had failed to account for the natural tachyon output of properly seated bananas (and the lower but significant output of properly seated plantains, as well). But we may be drifting slightly off-topic.

The OP is correct: the Linux Weather Forecast is like a car with a banana (properly seated) in the radiator.

Not quite.

[jd]

The seating must be in the Complex domain, and for the output to generate the necessary synchrotron tachyon, the banana must be entangled with the fish in the tailpipe, as postulated by Minsky space.