On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Jack Norton wrote:

ron minnich wrote:

2.7M lines last year
10K lines added a day.
5K lines deleted per day.

I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next?

At the same time, well, as pointed out, we all use it all the time.
I'm sending this from gmail.

Or you can use Linux by googling these stats :-)

ron

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...

Fork... That's true, everything under the sun has forked, except the Linux kernel...

Except for the times when the linux kernel was forked for PPC support :-).

Or the fork for running linux on L4.

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.

 

-Jack