[PLUG] Fwd: [lug] linux kernel talk at OSU

Matt Alexander lowbassman at gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 21:32:44 UTC 2004


Subject: [ece-grads] EECS Colloquium Monday, Oct. 25th

Past and upcoming colloquiums for OSU EECS are posted at
http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/graduate/colloquium/ .

Monday
October 25
4:00 - 4:50 PM
Covell 216

Greg Kroah-Hartman
Linux Kernel maintainer
IBM
Portland, OR

Current State of the Linux Kernel

This talk will go into the current status of the 2.6 Linux kernel
development process, detailing the prior history of the 2.5 development
process, and attempt to explain the brash claim by the kernel developers
that a 2.7 fork will not happen any time soon as they "are happy the way
things currently are." It will also go into how the development process
for the kernel maintainers has changed without anyone else noticing, and
how the whole kernel development process seems to be breaking all
traditional software engineering rules about how a project should be
successfully run.

Biography

Greg Kroah-Hartman is currently the Linux kernel maintainer of USB, PCI,
and a handful of other subsystems. He is also in charge of the
linux-hotplug and udev projects, along with maintaining the Gentoo Linux
kernel package. He is a contributing editor to Linux Journal, writing a
bi-monthly column about Linux kernel driver programming, and is the
co-author of the upcoming "Linux Device Drivers, third edition" book
from O'Reilly. He works for IBM in Portland, Oregon, doing various Linux
kernel related things.



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