Linux Kernel Moves To Github

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 5, 2011 @01:00AM from the moving-to-better-quarters-on-campus dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linus Torvalds has announced that he will be distributing the Linux kernel via Github until kernel.org servers are fully operational following the recent server compromise. From the announcement: 'But hey, the whole point (well, *one* of the points) of distributed development is that no single place is really any different from any other, so since I did a github account for my divelog thing, why not see how well it holds up to me just putting my whole kernel repo there too?'"

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Re:Time to shift focus to another kernel? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-05 01:40 · Score: 5, Insightful

Why is HAL such a good idea?
I know that I can move a Linux installation image from one machine to another without a glitch, while Windows (which has a HAL) fails miserably if the source and destination machine vary in any non-trivial way.