What Needs Fixing In Linux

Courtesy Slashdot: Linux  Mon, 12/01/2008 - 08:35

An anonymous reader writes "Infoweek's Fixing Linux: What's Broken And What To Do About It argues that the 17-year-old open-source operating system still has problems.

Leading the list is author Serdar Yegulap's complaint that the kernel application binary interfaces are a moving target.

He writes: "The sheer breadth of kernel interfaces means it's entirely possible for something to break in a way that might not even show up in a fairly rigorous code review." Also on his list of needed...


 

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