I work with one of the larger LPFM stations - WRIR, in Richmond, VA. It has dramatically changed the radio landscape, allowing everything from bluegrass to electronica to Democracy Now to be heard on the air.
It took a lot of effort by a lot of dedicated people - a volunteer radio station is a very hard thing to do. It's still vastly preferable to the fragmented Top-40 market that Radio One and Clear Channel push.
I would recommend working with a LPFM to any geek handy with a soldering iron - they will always need engineers and hardware hackers to build the station out and keep the gear running.
Honestly, I have my doubts that it's really that big of a problem. I can't imagine that happens much outside of mom and pop shops that aren't exactly selling thousands or even hundreds of new computers per day.
Um - repair shops are doing the same thing - although our company's primary market isn't desktop support and repair (we do AD/Unix integration and network security), we see pirated Windows OS's come up all the time on initial site audits. They're mostly the result of fly-by-night "PC Technician" companies that couldn't be bothered to use the OEM key on the freaking case.
Shoddy work is not uncommon in the business IT world - and people who can't be bothered to use an OEM disk to reinstall and validate over the phone really aren't doing their job properly. They'd rather use a slipstreamed VLK CD to save 10 minutes on a reinstall, and let the customer hold the bag if the BSA ever shows up.
Missed the "static linking" in the OP - that does need to have a compatible license.
But honestly, the last time I built something statically-linked for distribution, it was a tweaked OpenVPN for DD-WRT - unless you're running this on a device equally small, don't bother with it (it's a real pain).
Although it is generally accepted that you can link to GPL libraries in closed-source software, it has not been tested in court. You can obfuscate code - I've talked to people who wrote encrypted binaries as CS projects. But, if you are going to be releasing a product that has a mix of open- and closed-source, you will still have to provide the source of every bit of GPL-licensed software you do use. That includes things like drivers for any custom hardware that you have - look at the troubles Linksys had with the WRT54G.
BSD is completely unencumbered by these restrictions, and if it works on your hardware platform, it's not a bad option.
IANAL, though, so if you are truly concerned, get yourself a lawyer that knows how OSS works and get some pointers if you want to go the Linux route. Generally, though, if you look at how Linksys/Cisco handles the WRT54GS, and make a similar effort (an FTP site with the source code, and references to it in documentation, in the device OS, and on your website) you should be okay.
I didn't see that anywhere in the list. It's not a bad postulation, though. He definitely beats Nixon for henious political thuggery.
Israel and Jews are Nazis
ummm... okay... That'd be a neat trick.
the US is ruining the world
Well, I see wars of aggression and mass pollution as "ruining the world". Dunno about you, though.
George Bush blew up the Twin Towers
That'd be a tough thing to prove, seeing as how he was in Florida at the time.
no self-respecting news media would sully itself with such zany and radical conspiracy theories
One of the requirements of science is to challenge assumptions. Many of the principles we rely on for the functioning of our technological society were first postulated by people concidered crackpots and lunatics by their peers.
And BTW - the story on the Iraq war's start and ties to OPEC was done by the reporter that exposed a major bribery scandal in the UK. He's also the one that exposed the 2000 election corruption in Florida.
I recently RMA'd a Tyan dual Opteron motherboard for having some Windows processes freeze up randomly. Of course, first thing I did when the problem showed up was boot into Knoppix and hammer the hell out of the thing - ran fine for two days straight. Booted back into Windows - same problem.
Okay - Windows went south. Re-image, re-install all the apps - same thing. Updates for every bit of firmware and software - same thing. Debugging sessions with that custom application's developers - same thing.
Finally bit the bullet and replaced the motherboard, and it's worked like a charm ever since.
I've found that a lot of flaky and semi-broken hardware will work perfectly under Linux. Most of the servers I set up for non-profits are actually decent to high-end Windows desktops that aren't stable in Windows anymore, but will run Linux without a hitch for years.
Dell has had these available for a long time. We've sold a lot of them to a our customers running Linux offices - makes life a hell of a lot easier. It's not their full lineup - for example, you can't get one of the ultra-cheap 320 slimlines in the N line, but they're pretty good if you need to throw 10 or 20 linux desktops in an office pretty quickly.
Dell is playing a lot nicer with Linux than they have in the past - the Dimension N series is even offered with RHEL 4 pre-installed.
My collection is 130G - I don't expect to put much on it. Plus, with a 5-hour full-throttle battery life, you'll be dropping it in its cradle every day or two anyway...
I'm sold. From the first whisper of the iPhone, I knew that was the phone for me - I've held off on buying both phone and iPod for just that reason. Because every smartphone I've seen (until now) ranges from almost okay to completely unuseable, and I can't justify juggling two gadgets in my pockets.
I would never run a Windows machine exposed to the Internet - it takes too much damn time to harden it enough to survive the wilds of the Internet on its own. I'd rather give it a BSD or Linux jimmy-hat - faster to set up, and you don't make your Windows box unusable from the security settings you've forced on it.
I'd agree with you on a lot of "security" software - it's mostly horseshit. Unfortunately, most of the good, unobtrusive software is generally reserved for business users. I'd love to have something functional but unobtrusive to offer customers that don't have a server at their office...
I've got a Cyrix something-ancient sitting at my mom's house with a 500 GB SATA drive and her printer hanging off it - does samba, squid, and firewalling. Also have a K6-III pumping out a Icecast stream for a local community radio station. I've set up a PII-233 running NT4 to handle a building access control system that we picked up on EBay (the upgraded ROMS that could handle the XP-capable control program were $400).
Plus, there are plenty of home and hobby sites hosted on all kinds of wierd stuff - for awhile, a number of people were hosting sites off their XBoxen...
Ford doesn't make tires - they just buy them from Firestone or Michelin or whoever and put them on new cars.
Should car manufacturers be forced to sell cars without tires since they didn't make them? Oh, and most of the time, you have to special order a specific brand of tire on your car. Or you take what you are given.
So long as they allow one process to spawn a thread in another, you can read process memory. The Cell processor has some hardware tricks to try and keep that from happening, involving a combination of signed code and some special calls in one of the CPEs, combined with access restrictions on the memory areas accessed by thet CPE. x86 doesn't have the capability to do that - and both VMWare and checked builds allow you full access to the process memory.
That's a barn door you can not close on x86 or x86-64. At all.
One of these will work better - Mythbusters built one for one of their shows, and a lot of radio telescope facilities enclose their microwave ovens in 'em so that they don't interfere with the telescope...
Not the most convenient thing to carry around, though. A clanshell case built out of acoustic foam would probably work as well. Or leaving the cell phone in another room. Or standing next to a waterfall or a large, noisy fan. Lots of things can be used to defeat most microphone-based eavesdropping.
We've been helping our customers transit to IE7 - it's been a good excuse to get WSUS and full AD/GPO set up on their servers ( since they'd pay a shitload for manually doing all the patches, we offer 'em a better price for getting their domain in order than to run around and patch 50 desktops individually, and we can sell them on IE7 pretty easily once they try it ). Also lets us know when a computer has a bad Windows license - which is very useful in a business setting.
We're going to be purchasing a copy of Vista early next year to start evaluation of some of the software our customers use - even with our SMB client base, only one of our customers even asked about it, and that's because he needs more than 3 GB of memory for some apps he uses, and wanted to know if XP x64 was worth it, or if he should wait for Vista...
I'm not really impressed by Vista, from what I've seen - IE7 was a far more radical ( and useful ) change. OTOH, it also means there's going to be a lot of shake-up among small IT shops, as people jockey for advertising "Vista-capable" techs and whatnot. Also going to make a lot of money for trainers.
and I've got to say - 128k mp3's are the absolute minimum we can play on the air. You run into some wierd problems playing compressed audio over FM - due to the way stereo channels are transmitted, you can get some bizzare stereo artifacts.
Biggest problem with lossless compressed codecs is that there's shit for support for 'em. Most semi-pro or pro audio software won't recognize anything but WAV and MP3, and AAC and WMA if you're lucky. Most of 'em won't support OGG, either...
And please don't get me started on Audacity - it's great for quick editing, but the interfaces are probably 5 years behind pro software. I truly wish it was better - I'd love to not have to support Windows audio production machines, but until we have a piece of pro-quality OSS audio editing software that beats at least entry-level proprietary Windows stuff, we're stuck paying hundreds of dollars per seat for the basic stuff. For mastering live CDs and doing 5.1 mixdowns, software can easily run into the thousands of dollars.
To sum it up, I'd love to have lossless audio be better supported - we've got a several thousand disk collection that I'd rather have sitting on a fileserver for easy access, and be able to download a song and play it on the air without someone's shit encoder make the song go futzy, but it'll take a hell of a fight to get FLAC supported on players. OTOH, with the impressive size increases in flash memory these days, maybe it's time to start looking at it...
I prefer Fedora, my co-worker prefers Slackware - and we are equally productive. Supporting as many distros as possible would be a great goal - if you keep it as a completely seperate installation and don't try to "integrate" it into the host OS (I'm thinking of some Samsung printer drivers as a particularly bad example).
For example, Plone ships with its own version of Python and Zope to keep the host OS's versions of either from breaking the application, and lets you update the host OS independently of the application. This is a good thing.
Did your senator vote to help those people get cheaper gas by allowing oil drilling in ANWR? Or did he choose the convenience of caribou over the well-being of these poor people? How about drilling off shore? How about cutting the gas tax?
For God's sake, please, please, PLEASE stop dragging ANWR out as a "hippie-killer" - "see, you care more about caribou than children". It's a particularly ludicrous strawman.
This report from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, puts the amount of oil extractable from ANWR at a range of 5.7 to 16 billion bbl, with a mean of 10.3 billion bbl.
From the testimony of the administrator of the Energy Information Administration, our 2004 daily oil demand is 20.8 million bbl/day.
Basic math gives us the result of: ANWR reserves, at the most optimistic review by professional geologists, 770 days of oil at current consumption rates.
The mean reserve calculation gives us 496 days of supply. And that won't come on line for years, as the infrastructure needs to be built from scratch.
Free markets evolve into cartels. The big fish band together to squeeze everyone else out, and then set prices according to their own whim.
And don't give me any crap about honest businessmen. All businessmen, especially those who work for publicly-traded corporations, have a responsibility to the bottom line and nothing more. That kind of amoral outlook on life means that you have no problem cozying up to dictators and autocrats, because it helps the bottom line not to have to deal with troublesome workers and community groups and whatnot.
An utterly free and unregulated market is subject to wild swings in price that inherently hurt the small operators in that market. Even the NYSE - high temple of the economy - has brakes in place on its electronic trading systems. Too much activity, up OR down makes the system slow down, until it shuts itself down.
Coersion! OMG!!!! Evil!!!! In the heart of Capitalism!!!!!!1!!!1
I would rather have my government protect me and mine from the ravages of an unregulated economy. After all, things like the FDA and the police are coersions as well. They restrict choices - everything from "no, you can't sell radium salts as a cure for goiters" to "no, you can't make an armed withdrawal from that bank".
Coersion is a fact of life in any government system. It's the only way to enforce minimal civility - because not everyone behaves in a decent and moral fasion on their own.
It takes a couple of seconds for medium-complicated stuff to fire up on my P3-800 at work, but nowhere near as bad as Windows. Linux treats it the same as perl or python - just uses the java runtime to execute it.
My recent experiences with some rather well-coded Java stuff has even made me give up my native prejudice against it (formed in 1998-99, when it truly did suck). The GUIs went from hideous to okay...
I spend so much time battling my ADD on a normal day, that when I'm on meds, I have a lot more focus on the problem at hand. I've found that Adderall has that effect more markedly than Ritalin, but the amphetamine side effects are more pronounced as well (dialated pupils, dry mouth, twitchy hands). Either of them will help lose weight, since you're not jacking up your blood sugar to keep focused.
OTOH, it sucks at a party - someone slipped me some once, and completely killed my buzz. Completely.
On the other hand, I enjoyed my time doing kernel programming. It does take familiarization - any codebase that big requires time to learn how the software works, even ones less complex than modern kernels.
I just think it's great that there's an opportunity for mere mortals to play in one of the biggest games on earth for OS geeks - and of all the OSS kernels out there, the Linux kernel has the fastest pace. And there's a lot of room to grow, especially in the microcontroller area.
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I work with one of the larger LPFM stations - WRIR, in Richmond, VA. It has dramatically changed the radio landscape, allowing everything from bluegrass to electronica to Democracy Now to be heard on the air.
It took a lot of effort by a lot of dedicated people - a volunteer radio station is a very hard thing to do. It's still vastly preferable to the fragmented Top-40 market that Radio One and Clear Channel push.
I would recommend working with a LPFM to any geek handy with a soldering iron - they will always need engineers and hardware hackers to build the station out and keep the gear running.
Honestly, I have my doubts that it's really that big of a problem. I can't imagine that happens much outside of mom and pop shops that aren't exactly selling thousands or even hundreds of new computers per day.
Um - repair shops are doing the same thing - although our company's primary market isn't desktop support and repair (we do AD/Unix integration and network security), we see pirated Windows OS's come up all the time on initial site audits. They're mostly the result of fly-by-night "PC Technician" companies that couldn't be bothered to use the OEM key on the freaking case.
Shoddy work is not uncommon in the business IT world - and people who can't be bothered to use an OEM disk to reinstall and validate over the phone really aren't doing their job properly. They'd rather use a slipstreamed VLK CD to save 10 minutes on a reinstall, and let the customer hold the bag if the BSA ever shows up.
Wankers.
So I'm not suprised that IE4Linux does the same.
Missed the "static linking" in the OP - that does need to have a compatible license.
But honestly, the last time I built something statically-linked for distribution, it was a tweaked OpenVPN for DD-WRT - unless you're running this on a device equally small, don't bother with it (it's a real pain).
Although it is generally accepted that you can link to GPL libraries in closed-source software, it has not been tested in court. You can obfuscate code - I've talked to people who wrote encrypted binaries as CS projects. But, if you are going to be releasing a product that has a mix of open- and closed-source, you will still have to provide the source of every bit of GPL-licensed software you do use. That includes things like drivers for any custom hardware that you have - look at the troubles Linksys had with the WRT54G.
BSD is completely unencumbered by these restrictions, and if it works on your hardware platform, it's not a bad option.
IANAL, though, so if you are truly concerned, get yourself a lawyer that knows how OSS works and get some pointers if you want to go the Linux route. Generally, though, if you look at how Linksys/Cisco handles the WRT54GS, and make a similar effort (an FTP site with the source code, and references to it in documentation, in the device OS, and on your website) you should be okay.
Let's take a look at this, shall we?
Cheney is evil
I didn't see that anywhere in the list. It's not a bad postulation, though. He definitely beats Nixon for henious political thuggery.
Israel and Jews are Nazis
ummm... okay... That'd be a neat trick.
the US is ruining the world
Well, I see wars of aggression and mass pollution as "ruining the world". Dunno about you, though.
George Bush blew up the Twin Towers
That'd be a tough thing to prove, seeing as how he was in Florida at the time.
no self-respecting news media would sully itself with such zany and radical conspiracy theories
One of the requirements of science is to challenge assumptions. Many of the principles we rely on for the functioning of our technological society were first postulated by people concidered crackpots and lunatics by their peers.
And BTW - the story on the Iraq war's start and ties to OPEC was done by the reporter that exposed a major bribery scandal in the UK. He's also the one that exposed the 2000 election corruption in Florida.
But I'm sorry - that's all "crazy-talk".
I'm still limping (5 months later) from the accident where someone texting a friend rear-ended the car I was in.
There is no such thing as common sense.
Personally, I think text messaging while driving should carry the same penalty as a DUI - you are just as impaired.
I recently RMA'd a Tyan dual Opteron motherboard for having some Windows processes freeze up randomly. Of course, first thing I did when the problem showed up was boot into Knoppix and hammer the hell out of the thing - ran fine for two days straight. Booted back into Windows - same problem.
Okay - Windows went south. Re-image, re-install all the apps - same thing. Updates for every bit of firmware and software - same thing. Debugging sessions with that custom application's developers - same thing.
Finally bit the bullet and replaced the motherboard, and it's worked like a charm ever since.
I've found that a lot of flaky and semi-broken hardware will work perfectly under Linux. Most of the servers I set up for non-profits are actually decent to high-end Windows desktops that aren't stable in Windows anymore, but will run Linux without a hitch for years.
Dell has had these available for a long time. We've sold a lot of them to a our customers running Linux offices - makes life a hell of a lot easier. It's not their full lineup - for example, you can't get one of the ultra-cheap 320 slimlines in the N line, but they're pretty good if you need to throw 10 or 20 linux desktops in an office pretty quickly.
Dell is playing a lot nicer with Linux than they have in the past - the Dimension N series is even offered with RHEL 4 pre-installed.
My collection is 130G - I don't expect to put much on it. Plus, with a 5-hour full-throttle battery life, you'll be dropping it in its cradle every day or two anyway...
I'm sold. From the first whisper of the iPhone, I knew that was the phone for me - I've held off on buying both phone and iPod for just that reason. Because every smartphone I've seen (until now) ranges from almost okay to completely unuseable, and I can't justify juggling two gadgets in my pockets.
I would never run a Windows machine exposed to the Internet - it takes too much damn time to harden it enough to survive the wilds of the Internet on its own. I'd rather give it a BSD or Linux jimmy-hat - faster to set up, and you don't make your Windows box unusable from the security settings you've forced on it.
I'd agree with you on a lot of "security" software - it's mostly horseshit. Unfortunately, most of the good, unobtrusive software is generally reserved for business users. I'd love to have something functional but unobtrusive to offer customers that don't have a server at their office...
I've got a Cyrix something-ancient sitting at my mom's house with a 500 GB SATA drive and her printer hanging off it - does samba, squid, and firewalling. Also have a K6-III pumping out a Icecast stream for a local community radio station. I've set up a PII-233 running NT4 to handle a building access control system that we picked up on EBay (the upgraded ROMS that could handle the XP-capable control program were $400).
Plus, there are plenty of home and hobby sites hosted on all kinds of wierd stuff - for awhile, a number of people were hosting sites off their XBoxen...
Ford doesn't make tires - they just buy them from Firestone or Michelin or whoever and put them on new cars.
Should car manufacturers be forced to sell cars without tires since they didn't make them? Oh, and most of the time, you have to special order a specific brand of tire on your car. Or you take what you are given.
So long as they allow one process to spawn a thread in another, you can read process memory. The Cell processor has some hardware tricks to try and keep that from happening, involving a combination of signed code and some special calls in one of the CPEs, combined with access restrictions on the memory areas accessed by thet CPE. x86 doesn't have the capability to do that - and both VMWare and checked builds allow you full access to the process memory.
That's a barn door you can not close on x86 or x86-64. At all.
One of these will work better - Mythbusters built one for one of their shows, and a lot of radio telescope facilities enclose their microwave ovens in 'em so that they don't interfere with the telescope...
Not the most convenient thing to carry around, though. A clanshell case built out of acoustic foam would probably work as well. Or leaving the cell phone in another room. Or standing next to a waterfall or a large, noisy fan. Lots of things can be used to defeat most microphone-based eavesdropping.
We've been helping our customers transit to IE7 - it's been a good excuse to get WSUS and full AD/GPO set up on their servers ( since they'd pay a shitload for manually doing all the patches, we offer 'em a better price for getting their domain in order than to run around and patch 50 desktops individually, and we can sell them on IE7 pretty easily once they try it ). Also lets us know when a computer has a bad Windows license - which is very useful in a business setting.
We're going to be purchasing a copy of Vista early next year to start evaluation of some of the software our customers use - even with our SMB client base, only one of our customers even asked about it, and that's because he needs more than 3 GB of memory for some apps he uses, and wanted to know if XP x64 was worth it, or if he should wait for Vista...
I'm not really impressed by Vista, from what I've seen - IE7 was a far more radical ( and useful ) change. OTOH, it also means there's going to be a lot of shake-up among small IT shops, as people jockey for advertising "Vista-capable" techs and whatnot. Also going to make a lot of money for trainers.
and I've got to say - 128k mp3's are the absolute minimum we can play on the air. You run into some wierd problems playing compressed audio over FM - due to the way stereo channels are transmitted, you can get some bizzare stereo artifacts.
Biggest problem with lossless compressed codecs is that there's shit for support for 'em. Most semi-pro or pro audio software won't recognize anything but WAV and MP3, and AAC and WMA if you're lucky. Most of 'em won't support OGG, either...
And please don't get me started on Audacity - it's great for quick editing, but the interfaces are probably 5 years behind pro software. I truly wish it was better - I'd love to not have to support Windows audio production machines, but until we have a piece of pro-quality OSS audio editing software that beats at least entry-level proprietary Windows stuff, we're stuck paying hundreds of dollars per seat for the basic stuff. For mastering live CDs and doing 5.1 mixdowns, software can easily run into the thousands of dollars.
To sum it up, I'd love to have lossless audio be better supported - we've got a several thousand disk collection that I'd rather have sitting on a fileserver for easy access, and be able to download a song and play it on the air without someone's shit encoder make the song go futzy, but it'll take a hell of a fight to get FLAC supported on players. OTOH, with the impressive size increases in flash memory these days, maybe it's time to start looking at it...
I prefer Fedora, my co-worker prefers Slackware - and we are equally productive. Supporting as many distros as possible would be a great goal - if you keep it as a completely seperate installation and don't try to "integrate" it into the host OS (I'm thinking of some Samsung printer drivers as a particularly bad example).
For example, Plone ships with its own version of Python and Zope to keep the host OS's versions of either from breaking the application, and lets you update the host OS independently of the application. This is a good thing.
I will definitely take another look at Coverity's products, if the Firefox team is finding value in it.
Did your senator vote to help those people get cheaper gas by allowing oil drilling in ANWR? Or did he choose the convenience of caribou over the well-being of these poor people? How about drilling off shore? How about cutting the gas tax?
For God's sake, please, please, PLEASE stop dragging ANWR out as a "hippie-killer" - "see, you care more about caribou than children". It's a particularly ludicrous strawman.
This report from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, puts the amount of oil extractable from ANWR at a range of 5.7 to 16 billion bbl, with a mean of 10.3 billion bbl.
From the testimony of the administrator of the Energy Information Administration, our 2004 daily oil demand is 20.8 million bbl/day.
Basic math gives us the result of: ANWR reserves, at the most optimistic review by professional geologists, 770 days of oil at current consumption rates.
The mean reserve calculation gives us 496 days of supply. And that won't come on line for years, as the infrastructure needs to be built from scratch.
Find another strawman.
Free markets evolve into cartels. The big fish band together to squeeze everyone else out, and then set prices according to their own whim.
And don't give me any crap about honest businessmen. All businessmen, especially those who work for publicly-traded corporations, have a responsibility to the bottom line and nothing more. That kind of amoral outlook on life means that you have no problem cozying up to dictators and autocrats, because it helps the bottom line not to have to deal with troublesome workers and community groups and whatnot.
An utterly free and unregulated market is subject to wild swings in price that inherently hurt the small operators in that market. Even the NYSE - high temple of the economy - has brakes in place on its electronic trading systems. Too much activity, up OR down makes the system slow down, until it shuts itself down.
Coersion! OMG!!!! Evil!!!! In the heart of Capitalism!!!!!!1!!!1
I would rather have my government protect me and mine from the ravages of an unregulated economy. After all, things like the FDA and the police are coersions as well. They restrict choices - everything from "no, you can't sell radium salts as a cure for goiters" to "no, you can't make an armed withdrawal from that bank".
Coersion is a fact of life in any government system. It's the only way to enforce minimal civility - because not everyone behaves in a decent and moral fasion on their own.
It takes a couple of seconds for medium-complicated stuff to fire up on my P3-800 at work, but nowhere near as bad as Windows. Linux treats it the same as perl or python - just uses the java runtime to execute it.
My recent experiences with some rather well-coded Java stuff has even made me give up my native prejudice against it (formed in 1998-99, when it truly did suck). The GUIs went from hideous to okay...
I spend so much time battling my ADD on a normal day, that when I'm on meds, I have a lot more focus on the problem at hand. I've found that Adderall has that effect more markedly than Ritalin, but the amphetamine side effects are more pronounced as well (dialated pupils, dry mouth, twitchy hands). Either of them will help lose weight, since you're not jacking up your blood sugar to keep focused.
OTOH, it sucks at a party - someone slipped me some once, and completely killed my buzz. Completely.
We have.
At least on our terminal replacements - they have the USB stack completely removed.
Now, they still have cd drives and floppy drives, but they are set to no autorun, as well.
We have to go through a proxy server, and only managers can visit the Internet.
Only supervisory employees have e-mail, and executable attachments are blocked.
DHCP is also pretty effectively locked down - you need a valid MAC and hostname to get an IP addy.
However, they apparently never heard of Knoppix... <evil grin>
On the other hand, I enjoyed my time doing kernel programming. It does take familiarization - any codebase that big requires time to learn how the software works, even ones less complex than modern kernels.
I just think it's great that there's an opportunity for mere mortals to play in one of the biggest games on earth for OS geeks - and of all the OSS kernels out there, the Linux kernel has the fastest pace. And there's a lot of room to grow, especially in the microcontroller area.