Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

[Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>]

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On Sep 21, 2009, at 3:32 PM, David Leimbach wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Patrick Kelly
> <kameo76890@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Jack Norton wrote:
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> ron minnich wrote:
> 2.7M lines last year
> 10K lines added a day.
> 5K lines deleted per day.
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> I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next?
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> At the same time, well, as pointed out, we all use it all the time.
> I'm sending this from gmail.
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> Or you can use Linux by googling these stats :-)
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> ron
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> Here is a little related tidbit:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/222773/
> It shows employer/company vs. changed lines/contributions etc...
> I think this has as much to do with the state of  the linux kernel
> as the overall design and ideal therein.  It defines the 'new' open
> source.   I don't think something this large can benifit anymore
> from open source (as in open 'all the time' to anyone, everywhere --
> as opposed to let's say apple's version of open source dev).  The
> development scheme just doesn't scale.
> In any event, I'm still waiting for the damn thing to fork...
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> Fork... That's true, everything under the sun has forked, except the
> Linux kernel...
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> Except for the times when the linux kernel was forked for PPC
> support :-).
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> Or the fork for running linux on L4.
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> or....

Last thing I new all of these ports were merged back into the main
tree. Although I guess that would still be considered a port.
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