I began reading the essay and as I started thinking about the numbers presented (even if there is a 25% margin of error) and I was amazed. Think about all the effort that went into all the components that make up Linux, GNU/Linux, whatever... All those people spending late nights chasing down obscure bugs and adding new features, for no reason except to further the OS and the community. It's an astounding effort, and all of us who have ever written a single line of code, posted a bug report, or helped someone out in a news group should be proud.
Alright, enough with the sentimental crap...you may continue your bickering now...
One thing that has been hinted to, but not completely stated, is that the kernel (at least in Linux) is the interface between the applications you wish to run and the hardware. For lack of a better term, it's an API for your computer's hardware. That's why Linus wrote a kernel, because he liked to mess around with hardware. A web server is an application. It opens files, sends out TCP/IP packets, etc...and this should all be done through system calls to the kernel.
And that's that...
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I began reading the essay and as I started thinking about the numbers presented (even if there is a 25% margin of error) and I was amazed. Think about all the effort that went into all the components that make up Linux, GNU/Linux, whatever... All those people spending late nights chasing down obscure bugs and adding new features, for no reason except to further the OS and the community. It's an astounding effort, and all of us who have ever written a single line of code, posted a bug report, or helped someone out in a news group should be proud.
Alright, enough with the sentimental crap...you may continue your bickering now...
One thing that has been hinted to, but not completely stated, is that the kernel (at least in Linux) is the interface between the applications you wish to run and the hardware. For lack of a better term, it's an API for your computer's hardware. That's why Linus wrote a kernel, because he liked to mess around with hardware. A web server is an application. It opens files, sends out TCP/IP packets, etc...and this should all be done through system calls to the kernel. And that's that...