The Kernel Report
Talkat Open Source Summit Europe 2023 · on Tuesday, 2023-09-19· at 11:25· Room 0B (Floor 0), Abandoibarra Etorb., 4, 48011 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain·
summary
Six mainline kernels ship since October with 2,100 developers in the peak 6.2 cycle and about 200–300 first‑time contributors per release; long‑term 4.14 accumulates roughly 28,000 fixes via backports, which both improves security and also introduces new bugs, so LTS support window drops from six years toward two. BPF expands into schedulers, IO_uring, page‑aging and drivers while an extensible scheduler is rejected; Rust is experimental with Rust support merged in 6.1 and an Apple GPU driver underway. Maintainers burn out and documentation and staffing shortfalls create a real maintenance crisis.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Kernel community update
- 2:58Stable kernel maintenance
- 14:30BPF technology overview
- 25:16Rust in the kernel
- 33:20Maintainership challenges
