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Given the number of operating system kernels in the world, it might be helpful to change the title to say "the Linux kernel" instead of "the kernel". I understa
by swills 9y ago
Given the number of operating system kernels in the world, it might be helpful to change the title to say "the Linux kernel" instead of "the kernel". I understand TFA is on lwn.net, which has "Linux" in it's title, so it's clear there, but here it becomes a little vague.
- Koshkin 9y agoPerhaps, that was in reference to https://www.kernel.org/ https://www.kernel.org/.
- howard941 9y agoThis. FreeBSD's been building on CLANG for amd64 and i386 since before 10.0 (now on 11). See, for ex., https://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang https://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49906/why-is-freebsd-deprecating-gcc-in-favor-of-clang-llvm https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49906/why-is-freebs...
- notaplumber 9y agoOpenBSD is also now building the kernel/userland and most of the ports tree with Clang for i386/amd64 and arm64. 6.2 will ship with it as the default system compiler. > Kroah-Hartman said that he wished there was a competitor to the Linux kernel. Linux people refuse to look outside their vacuum chamber.
- ndesaulniers 9y agoThat was not what he said. Article is wrong. He started he wants more competition amongst compiler vendors for the benefit of the kernel.
- kasabali 9y ago> Sorry, but you might have missed my follow-on comment which was, "I wish we had a viable competitor to the Linux kernel as well". Jake correctly quoted me here. https://lwn.net/Articles/734405/ https://lwn.net/Articles/734405/
- mac01021 9y agoI, for one, assumed they meant linux.
- paulddraper 9y agoYou may have background knowledge. It's about a kernel for which compiling with Clang is (1) interesting and (2) novel. If you know Linux, you'll recognize that's Linux.
- sctb 9y agoOK! We've added “Linux”.
- swills 9y agoThanks!
- cup-of-tea 9y agoOh, come on... Don't tell me you even for a second thought it might have been another kernel.
- jwilk 9y agoActually, L in LWN no longer stands for Linux. From their FAQ <https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn >: What does LWN stand for, anyway? LWN, initially, was "Linux Weekly News." That name has been deemphasized over time as we have moved beyond just the weekly coverage, and as we have looked at the free software community as a whole. We have yet to come up with a better meaning for LWN, however.
- jacobush 9y agoWhat about Little Wicked Newsletter?