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

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

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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:
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>>> 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 :-).

Or the fork for running linux on L4.

or....




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