Zack Brown Taking a Break 21
Jon Dowland writes "Zack Brown's once-weekly Kernel Traffic summary of happenings on the linux kernel mailing list, is now on indefinite hiatus. From the announcement: 'Kernel Traffic has become more and more difficult over the years. From an average of 5 megs of email per week in 1999, the Linux kernel mailing list has gradually increased its traffic to 13 megs per week in 2005. Condensing that into 50 or 100 K of summaries each week has started to take more time than I have to give.' Fear not, because we still have kerneltrap and Linux Weekly News, amongst others. Zack still writes a regularly Kernel column for Linux Magazine and occasionally in others such as the UK Linux Format."
Thanks (Score:1, Funny)
Re:And people wonder why there's a market for Wind (Score:2)
Re:And people wonder why there's a market for Wind (Score:2)
OK, for those who didn't get it: Windows admins and developers don't get to participate in a daily Windows "Kernel" thread. So...they avoid having to read 13 megs of stuff each week AND they get to blame Microsoft whenever something goes wrong. (They can't patch Windows core themselves if they find problems.) It's a "win-win"...
Re:And people wonder why there's a market for Wind (Score:1, Funny)
Re:And people wonder why there's a market for Wind (Score:1)
I have to use that one sometime.
Thanks for the laugh.
Re:And people wonder why there's a market for Wind (Score:3, Informative)
Most Linux admins don't read the linux-kernel archives. Neither do most Linux developers in the sense that is analagous to Windows developers. The list is for people actually contributing to kernel development; people just developing software that runs on Linux don't normally read it.
There are some edge-cases of software applic
Re:And people wonder why there's a market for Wind (Score:1)
Just the ones that want to know which kernel version supports Solaris NFSv3 ACLs, or any number of niggling operational problems encountered while running Linux.
A Linux admin who isn't somewhat familiar with lkml (even via just KT or thru searching archives) is not much of a Linux admin. If anything, it's terribly useful to have a headsup on changes that could affect production systems (like devfs->udev, NPTL vs. Java, etc) even between patchlevels
Re:And people wonder why there's a market for Wind (Score:3, Interesting)
I did. Specifically because I didn't want to subscribe to the lklm mailing list. I'm not a kernel developer, so there was no need for me to keep up with every person kicking in their $0.02 on some obscure issue. BUT I really appreciated the summaries because Zack gave a quick blurb of what was going on over there in kernelland. It allowed me to gauge matters like "when to move to a new kernel?". Or if there was a problem with a kernel feature,
Automate it (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Automate it (Score:2)
Same problem, so copy the solution (Score:2)
Problem solved.
If he has a couch to crash on (Score:1)
Thanks, Zack! (Score:2)
-russ
Amen (Score:1)
Re:Why is this news? (Score:2)
But I can't really understand why its being posted here *now*. As other people mentioned, he put up his hiatus notice at least two weeks ago, after not having updated the website for 3 months. Apparently, no reader or Slashdot editor depends on Kernel Traffic summaries much. So, why is it news here?
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