On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 02:17:42PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > zzf...@embarqmail.com wrote: > > > I doubt that anyone could duplicate Linus's accomplishment today > > in the time frame that he did;ie, use an existing kernel as > > guideline and write an equivalent or better one. > > Linus' initial effort was about 10K lines in a year. The rest has been > added on over the years. You are comparing what he did originally with > 20 years of upgrades. > > Yes, I think a lot of people could turn out 10K lines of good code in a > year. Getting others to help was the real genius.
What I meant was for someone today to write modern kernel in that space of time . Even so, it was not the greatest analogy. Mike H. _-_-_ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
