Bisection divides users and developers
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| The last couple of years have seen a renewed push within the kernel community
| to avoid regressions. When a patch is found to have broken something that
| used to work, a fix must be merged or the offending patch will be removed
| from the kernel. It's a straightforward and logical idea, but there's one
| little problem: when a kernel series includes over 12,000 changesets (as
| 2.6.25 does), how does one find the patch which caused the problem? Sometimes
| it will be obvious, but, for other problems, there are literally thousands of
| patches which could be the source of the regression. Digging through all of
| those patches in search of a bug can be a needle-in-the-haystack sort of
| proposition.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/277872/
Recent:
Linux kernel developers have tripled in number
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| The Linux Foundation (LF) has published a study on Linux mainline kernel
| development. According to LF, the number of Linux kernel developers has
| tripled since 2005, with many more companies contributing to the process
| (including, potentially, the latest new LF member, Adobe).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6925891609.html
Linux Market to Triple by 2012
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| Analyst firm Research and Markets has just put out a project on Linux-based
| server and client hardware sales, and is projecting that the market will more
| than triple between 2007 and 2012.
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| A market for a platform is not the same as an ecosystem for it, which is much
| larger in that it includes the cost of people and third-party software and
| services for the code that runs atop the platform. So the R&M Linux market
| numbers might seem a little small. In any event, the consultancy pegged the
| Linux product and services market for Linux running on servers and clients
| (but not embedded systems) at $2.4 billion in 2007.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb031108-story07.html
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