A Tale of Four Kernels
The aggregate results indicate that across various areas and many different metrics, four systems developed using wildly different processes score comparably. This allows us to posit that the structure and internal quality attributes of a working, non-trivial software artifact will represent first and foremost the engineering requirements of its construction, with the influence of process being marginal, if any.
Posted 68 days ago
smckenzie23
Responses to this thread:
todd:
the paper seems to ignore the massive amount of communication in the OS community. ideas like the sendfile() system call and the zero copy ip stack spread rapidly among the OS development community. filesytems, network stacks, all have to interact in a modern networked world and all the OS designers share ideas.
todd:
Even the geneology is wrong. Linux didn't come from whole cloth, but had minix inspiration to start. Windows NT borrowed code (including filesystem code and networking code, i believe) from BSD. and so on.
todd:
i'd like to see this updated to include more information about kernel development outside of the US and western europe.
