29
Greg Kroah-Hartmann Visits my Operating Systems II Class
No comments · Posted by admin in Linux/Unix, Operating Systems, Uncategorized
Greg Kroah-Hartmann, a leader in the linux community, visited my CS411 class last Friday, May 23rd.
He works for Novell in the SUSE Labs division, based out of Nurumberg, Germany. He said only one person works there in Germany while everyone else works around the world.
He explained how the hierarchy of the people who develop linux works. It’s very efficient because at some point a file will have been touched by at least two people.
Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton used to pull the subsystem trees together by themselves, but now they use something better called Linux NEXT.
I asked him what kind of source control program was his favorite to which he replied, “git”.
There are some stagnated areas in the kernel development like PCMCIA and serial ports, but then again some older ports have been really active.
One thing I liked to hear was that he said, “The most linux kernel developers in the world are in Portland.” so I’m not too far away from some good innovators.
No tags
Social Links