The Linux Kernel's FuzzyFuture (InformationWeek)
Posted Dec 7, 2004 0:07 UTC (Tue) by
Duncan (guest, #6647)
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The Linux Kernel's Fuzzy Future (InformationWeek)
Isn't Linus on record as saying that one of the reasons Linux advances as
fast as it does is because it /doesn't/ have such structure? I seem to
remember reading a statement to that effect, that such "roadmap" based
work would have shoehorned Linux into something much different, and far
more limited, than what it was even with 2.0, let alone a modern kernel.
As others have said, there'd have been no way to predict three years back,
what we'd have today, and that has /always/ been the case with Linux. A
six-month to one year "projection" might arguably be possible, and indeed
there was such a thing pre-2.6, but get much farther out than that, and
it's really not possible. Even a year would be stretching it beyond all
practicality, in general, altho it might be possible for individual areas
of work.
Duncan
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