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Intel's Dirk Hohndel on 20 Years of Linux (Linux.com)

[Posted October 28, 2011 by ris]

Nathan Willis covers Dirk Hohndel's LinuxCon Europe presentation. "Hohndel was one of the earliest kernel contributors, and said that he wanted to present his take on the history of the project to provide a perspective that was not focused on the growth of Linux adoption, because for the founders of the kernel, it's primary appeal was as a technical challenge. World domination was an afterthought. In addition, he said, the core kernel team's continued focus on the "next technical hurdle" over the years is actually one of Linux's strengths. That is, they work on the kernel for its own sake. If it wasn't fun for them, it likely wouldn't be a platform for success for anyone else."

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And 21 years of the same spin button

Posted Oct 28, 2011 21:59 UTC (Fri) by littlesandra88 (guest, #64017) [Link]

21 years of the spin button
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659388

And 21 years of the same spin button

Posted Oct 29, 2011 0:36 UTC (Sat) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Off-topic, the article refers to the Linux kernel.

Intel's Dirk Hohndel on 20 Years of Linux (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 29, 2011 8:42 UTC (Sat) by lmb (subscriber, #39048) [Link]

At least I know who made that very polite and restrained comment about that e-mail he cited. ;-)

Intel's Dirk Hohndel on 20 Years of Linux (Linux.com)

Posted Nov 14, 2011 0:01 UTC (Mon) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

I don't hold the same opinion as Mr Hohndel.

I think that the secret of our success (we are in Ghandicon 4; make no mistake) is that all the people who have itches to scratch (or the employers who pay them to scratch theirs) *are forced through the Linus funnel*:

Linux has *one single architect*.

Ask Fred Brooks; he'll tell you: that is absolutely essential to maintaining coherence in any endeavour: only one person can be driving the boat.

This can be seen in the publishing industry just as well; I can't count the number of magazines that were bought out, and their editorial founders retired (73, Computer Telephony, Boardwatch), and they foundered and died.