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Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge :
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07-Dec-2001/09-Jan-07
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Why did the hacker hack the kernel? According to Jeremy
Fitzhardinge,
I started hacking it for the reason that everyone hacked on it then:
there was a lot of stuff it didn't do right, and there were things I
wanted it to do for various programming projects.
In the beginning, Jeremy was working at his first ``real job'' when he
got deep into kernel hacking. He says,
I was also looking at relatively obscure research operating systems
(Amoeba, Sprite) and wondering whether I could run one at home. Then a
friend showed me Linux, and I was amazed at how concise it was compared
to, say, SVR4.
Jeremy, whose contributions to the Linux kernel include work on file
systems and VM (virtual machine), is currently working on more ``stuff
it didn't do right,'' such as autofs, the Linux automounter that he has
been trying to improve. He is also one of those hackers who has been
fortunate enough to make a living hacking Linux. Right now, most of his
work is in embedded systems, getting Linux to boot out of flash memory
on a ``reasonably powerful PPC-based server the size of a CD-ROM
drive.''
And, as might be expected, Jeremy is thrilled with both the prospect of
commercial applications being written for Linux, as well as the overall
popular success of Linux these days. If anything, however, Jeremy sees
little sense in fixating on competing with Microsoft. He tells us,
The number-one threat [to Linux] is thinking that competition with
Windows is important, or indeed, that all the commercial interest is
important to Linux.
Let Linux be Linux, Jeremy seems to suggest, very much as many of his
hacker colleagues continue to urge:
There's still a way to go before people will happily sit down to a Linux
machine and do work, because the desktop applications are not there yet.
I like the fact that there's lots of different efforts, but they should
all go to some effort to keep their file formats interchangeable
wherever possible.
All the same, he thinks Linux does undermine many of the pretensions of
shrink-wrapped, proprietary software. ``I think people will become wary
about buying closed-source programs as the quality of open source
improves.'' Furthermore, Jeremy believes that the expectations open-
source customers have will make closed-source vendors more accountable.
Philosophically speaking, Jeremy is among those ``kernel forefathers''
who places high value on the GNU Project, even though his support for
the GNU Project is more on the practical side. ``Without GNU, we'd be
stuck without a serious compiler to base everything on, and also be
without many of those programs which make the UNIX experience,'' he
says.
Jeremy Fitzhardinge's e-mail address is
jeremy@goop.org.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4037.
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