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Navigate the Linux Kernel Like Google Maps

Posted by timothy on from the where's-my-house dept.

MakeLinux writes with a link to a cool interactive map of the kernel: "A picture is worth a thousand words. Just try it, and navigate the Linux kernel like Google Maps."

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  1. deja vous ? by v1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wasn't this map a front page article here a few months ago?

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  2. Just like Google maps... by imsabbel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If google maps would just allow you to zoom in enough to let russia fill the screen.

    Seriously, anybody else expecting, well, MORE with that headline? Like a complete mapping of function calls, or something?

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    1. Re:Just like Google maps... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      At the very least I was expecting to be able to drill down into the different aspects of the kernel. Instead all we got is a zoomable picture. Big whoop.

  3. This doesn't remind me of Google Maps by jeffmeden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This reminds me of Google Moon, neat but ultimately totally useless. Wake me up when there is a kernel map with 2 or 3 orders of magnitude navigable from one interface. If I wanted a list of all the components of the kernel, and hyperlinks to the code, I have plenty of more useful places to look.

  4. Flashy gimmick or gimmick with potential? by w0mprat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nice headline but the actual tool is more like a zooming and scrolling image. It would be really neat if this was anything like google maps and you actually deep zoomed into further detail. Even more interesting would be being able to go all the way down to the code and make changes! Coders kind of learn to visualize the high level structure of their work, but it's very hard for one coder to grasp the whole program. Indeed to manage complex projects, this is how it's done with lots of diagrams and charts, otherwise nobody stands a chance of understanding it.

    Actually being able to see it would be truely remarkable.

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