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Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS

Posted by kdawson on from the in-the-tree dept.

Linux Blog recommends an interview up on the O'Reilly site with Greg Kroah-Hartman, long-time Linux kernel hacker and the current Linux kernel maintainer for the USB driver core. He updates the free Linux driver program announced almost two years ago, which has really caught traction now with more than 300 developers volunteering. The interviewer begins by asking about Kroah-Hartman's claim that the Linux kernel now supports more devices than any other operating system ever has. "[One factor is] the ease of writing drivers; Linux drivers are at normally one-third smaller than Windows drivers or other operating system drivers. We have all the examples there, so it's trivial to write a new one if you have new hardware, usually because you can copy the code and go. We maintain them... forever, so the old ones don't disappear and we run on every single processor out there. I mean Linux is 80% of the world's top 500 super computers right now and we're also the number one embedded operating system today. We've got both sides of the market because it's — yeah it's pretty amazing. I don't know why, but we're doing something right."

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  1. About as original as celebrity baby names by syousef · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I feel like this patent is talking down to me, treating me like a 5 year old...

    Now children, let's see what we're learning about today...

    - Sunday Roast I mean err Sunday Rose is a girl, with a celebrity twit for a mum. So is Apple.

    - Sidney is a boy, but Sydney is a girl (and Australia's busiest city, with a poor public transport system)

    Since names are already associated with a gender, and the avatar's look is associated with a gender, what exactly is original here? Connecting the two? IP has gone insane!!!

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    1. Re:About as original as celebrity baby names by syousef · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Sorry, this is 13A, Abuse. You want Spelling Corrections down the hall to the right.

      Stupid git.

      I was close. I was looking at child abuse (naming your children without engaging your brain).

      Only on slashdot could a response to a story about patenting name to gender associations for avatars have a response featuring ridicule of people's poor naming choices and a commentary on said IP law be moderated "Off topic".

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  2. Re:No surprise here... by lastchance_000 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You mean <3 ?

  3. Re:God, you're good! by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Have you asked roblimo?

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