Messages in this thread | | | From | "jeff millar" <> | Subject | Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ??? | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:00:06 -0500 |
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Harnessing energy (rockets, nukes, etc) is fundamentally an unlimited engineering opportunity. But kernel development is mostly an attempt to reduce overhead to zero. If a kernel runs 90% efficient now, then there's only 10% additional improvement possible.
On the other hand application software is fundamentally unlimited.
So if you want to work on reliability, portability, maintainability, and adaptation to new hardware then kernels make a good career. But if you want to break new ground, then it's either application space or hardware.
jeff
----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank van Maarseveen" <F.vanMaarseveen@inter.nl.net> To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 6:55 PM Subject: Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ???
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:27:40PM -0500, jeff millar wrote: > > My opinion... > > > > Kernels are getting mature in the sense the there's not that many ways to do > > tasking and hardware interface. It no longer a game of invention but a game > > of polishing. > > no > > Everytime once in a while someone thinks that everything which can > be invented has been invented. Books like "The end of science". It's > pure hubris. > > Around 1930 it was proven that is was impossible to travel to the > moon. Then mankind discovered multi stage rockets and nuclear energy > (not even needed for that). > > It's incredible how narrow-minded established science sometimes is today > (and often has been past centuries). There is too much conservatism and > a general lack of imagination (though I must admit that no SF writer > could come up with something as bizarre as quantum mechanics, QED, > string theory and a few other things). > > Software and more specific kernel development has quite a short history > compared to all of that. So, let's be humble and accept that what we > do today will most likely be considered a trivial joke when the next > century arrives. > > You don't know what you do now know today. > > -- > Frank > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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