How Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS, Ever (O'Reilly)

O'Reilly has an interview with kernel hacker Greg Kroah-Hartman. In it, they cover topics like Linux device support, the kernel development process, and the ever (un)popular binary-only device drivers. "The ease of writing drivers; Linux drivers are at normally one-third smaller than Windows drivers or other operating system drivers. We have all the examples there, so it's trivial to write a new one if you have new hardware, usually because you can copy the code and go. We maintain them for forever, so the old ones don't disappear and we run on every single processor out there. I mean Linux is 80% of the world's top 500 super computers right now and we're also the number one embedded operating system today."

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