LinuxCon Europe 2011 | Presentations

20 years - And More - of Kernel Development

Twenty years after Linus's "not big and professional like GNU" kernel was posted, that kernel has become one of the biggest and most professional development projects around. This talk will start with the environment in which Linux was born, trace the major milestones in kernel development history, and conclude with some thoughts on where we go from here. It has been a long and strange trip, but we have really just begun.

Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net

Jonathan Corbet is a Linux kernel contributor, co-founder of LWN.net (and the author of its Kernel Page), and the lead author of Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.