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Three Decades in Kernelland

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Talkat Open Source Summit Europe 2025 · on Tuesday, 2025-08-26· at 11:00· Auditorium (Level 0)· [linux-and-operating-systems]

speaker

name:Jonathan Corbet
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/LS2LGMRzE1I
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summary

Thirty four years after a 10,000‑line toy kernel appears the project grows relentlessly to run phones and data centers while surviving the SCO copyright scare that finds no stolen code and the 2011 kernel.org break‑in. Development shifts from Linus merging everything to a maintainer model and BitKeeper → git, releases stabilize to 9–10 week cycles with 10,000 changes in two weeks during the merge window, and a real‑time preemption project takes 20 years to land and works in production.

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chapters (8)

  1. 0:00The early days of Linux
  2. 1:41Overcoming obscurity
  3. 3:44The development process
  4. 9:18Commercial adoption and growth
  5. 17:26Facing industry conflict
  6. 23:14Scaling and maturity
  7. 32:46Future challenges
  8. 35:49Q&A session

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