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Core work still going on 33 years later

Core work still going on 33 years later

Posted Oct 23, 2024 13:36 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (guest, #5198)
In reply to: Core work still going on 33 years later by raven667
Parent article: The long road to lazy preemption

Just because I liked the analogy, the Linux kernel has started from a wooden longship and been refactored into a full sailing galeon and then further refactored into a modern container ship, changing scope and structure along the way.


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Core work still going on 33 years later

Posted Oct 23, 2024 15:16 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

I think it started as a coracle, or dugout canoe ... probably coracle, that feels more finnish :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Core work still going on 33 years later

Posted Oct 31, 2024 10:34 UTC (Thu) by FluffyFox (guest, #162692) [Link]

This reminds me little history of the "very first version" of Linux which initially started as a program doing multitasking with 2 threads and today it become a versatile and flexible kernel


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