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you know why this is huge? its the first kernel piece of code that are and can be shared by different open-source operating systems in the kernel codebase! i h
by oscargrouch 13y ago
you know why this is huge? its the first kernel piece of code that are and can be shared by different open-source operating systems in the kernel codebase!
i hope more technologies could get up into this model.. while the democratic open-source ecosystem in userland is a rule this days.. on the kernel land this is not true
and that may force us to use a OS instead of other because of some feature that only that Os has, even if we wish to install the other one..
for instance, i love linux, but i also love the BSD´s and want them to grow as much as linux did.. if the good things created in one OS could also be used on other, by a proper port to that kernel, we might not being bullied to accept on OS in favor of another, and be stuck by it!
I hope this movement make its way to others kerneland technologies! great news!
- simcop2387 13y agoNot quite the first, but likely to end up one of the most wide spread. The DRM graphics drivers are actually older than ZFS and have been MIT licensed from the beginning (they started from older MIT licensed X11 projects). There's also possibly some other's from the BSD projects (network drivers and such) that are even older than those.
- oscargrouch 13y agoyeah, but in those cases you have cited, the interested party get the source and implements it on its own codebase himself eg. microsoft using bsd network layer on windows and freebsd porting linux drm to its own kernel.. this is different.. its aggregated as a product that target several os´s with different implementations for each kernel, but shareing only one core codebase.. this tends to be much more stable and cheap to everybody.. less bug prone, etc.. didnt heard of anything like it..