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Warner Losh
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Warner Losh : Übersicht
07-Dec-2001/09-Jan-07
Übersicht
Warner Losh isn't so enamored with Linux these days. He
says, ``I've grown beyond Linux. It was a cool hack once, but Linux
doesn't live up to its hype.'' Currently, Warner is a software engineer
working on FreeBSD. ``I have a high profile there,'' he says, ``which
gives me chances to work on consulting projects to augment my income.''
He is a senior committer to FreeBSD along with serving as its security
officer.
When his opinion of Linux was higher, Warner worked to get his company's
C++ toolkit and GUI open sourced. He also worked on porting Linux to the
ARC-based RISC machine, which was built around the MIPS processor at a
time when Microsoft was touting the Intel processor. He was also
involved with the early efforts to bring Linux up on the Windows CE
devices. His Linux days are basically over, though. He thinks Linux's
development model is horrible. ``I stopped using Linux on my Intel
machine because it took so much time to keep up to date. Download a new
kernel, and you will need a new libc. But that libc will also need a new
gcc, and the new gcc needs new bitutils. It all got very hard to keep
track of.''
Now, Warner prefers the FreeBSD development model, ``where you get the
entire tree from one place ... which makes it easier to contribute back
to FreeBSD faster.'' He thinks the GPL is ``evil,'' preferring the BSD
license ``because it encourages cooperation.'' Cooperation between
developers made Linux what it is today. Warner refers to the ``millions
of random monkeys writing'' for Linux as the best thing about Linux.
However, he adds ``the worst thing is that there's little filtering of
their code or making the architecture coherent or stable over the long
term.'' As for the future, if Linux is to continue to succeed, he says,
``it needs to organize its chaos.''
Warner Losh can be reached via e-mail at
imp@village.org.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4037.
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