The World According to Linus | Linux Today

The World According to Linus

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 29, 2008

[ Thanks to Bergkamp10 for this link.
]

What is the most difficult thing about kernel releases
these days?

“Well, people are excited about writing new code, new features
and things like that. The way we do it is, we have this merge
window for two weeks when all the new code is supposed to go in. In
that two weeks everybody is really happy because that’s when you
get to do all the fun stuff and you get to push in the new code
you’ve just written and are proud of and so on…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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