Kernel Contributor Corbet Says Linux Community Is 'Intimidating'

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Kernel Contributor Corbet Says Linux Community Is 'Intimidating'

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @05:25AM from the what-are-you-looking-at dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Key Linux kernel contributor Jonathan Corbet has admitted the developer community can be intimidating and hard to break into. He highlighted the issue during his Linux.conf.au presentation on the Linux kernel. Corbet expressed concern about the exclusivity of the kernel community, but says it's doing well regardless. He said in a period of just over a year, 55,000 individual changes from 2,700 developers (representing 370 employers) were made to the kernel, equaling 2.8 million lines of code. Corbet called the process 'alive and active.'"

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really? by nomadic · 2010-01-20 05:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Add it to the list!
Re:difficult? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-20 05:42 · Score: 5, Funny

I would say the relative challenge of understanding the kernel code is far greater than the social challenge of getting involved.
I'd say you're not a real nerd.
Re:Breaking into the asylum is... by Tetsujin · 2010-01-20 05:45 · Score: 2, Funny

an incomplete sentence

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Is this a question by Tetsujin · 2010-01-20 05:47 · Score: 4, Funny

You what's actually harder then Getting in the kernel community, Writing Good Sentences!

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Bow-ties are cool.
Re:Corbet says *Kernel* community intimidating by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-20 06:13 · Score: 1, Funny

What the h--- is the "kernel" community? Are we talking about popcorn farmers? No. It's the Linux (development) community, like the article says.

BTW, HTH is this marked informative?
Re:So.. by cheftw · 2010-01-20 06:48 · Score: 1, Funny

what?

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