[NTLUG:Discuss] Youtube Presentation Regarding Linux Kernel Development Process

[Fred Hensley]

Also, forgot to mention, for those who remember Chris Cox telling us
last year that KVM was the future of virtualization over Xen and others,
Greg pretty-much backs him up. Fascinating stuff..

-Fred-

Fred Hensley wrote:
> For anyone interested in learning how the kernel development process
> goes, Greg Hartman from Novell/OpenSuse gave a 50 minute talk and Q&A
> session last Summer at the Google Tech Talks conference that is
> available for review on youtube.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw
> 
> I was very interested to learn how this process works, the scale of
> growth, and how some elements (i.e. testing) are/are not accomplished...
> For example, I didn't know that the even/odd numbering system for kernel
>  stable/unstable releases actually went away a few years ago.
> 
> As an Ubuntu user for the past several years, I was surprised to learn
> that Canonical doesn't do much funding or source code contributions to
> kernel development..
> 
> Either way, I was pretty impressed at the scale and growth of
> development over the past several years.
> 
> As always, ymmv..
> 
> Fred Hensley
> 
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