Additionally, if you're really interested in free software at university, UCLA's Paul Eggert is pretty prolific. So here may be worth considering. - Maria
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019, 16:17 Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 12:45:11 -0600, Manuel Quintero Fonseca said: > > Hello, does anyone know any university that has lines of research on > > the linux kernel > > Well.. most of the actual code development is being done out in industry > and by individuals. The stuff that happens in universities is usually more > theoretical (new concepts in memory management, etc), and merely *uses* > Linux as a platform because it's available. Pretty much nobody is doing > any research *on* the Linux kernel as itself (unless it's as a case study > in > managing large scale software development, or as a data point for code > quality metrics and other such things). > > And there's a difference between "University ABC has a professor who's got > this > one project that happens to use Linux in it" and "University DEF has 4 > professors and 20 grad students who have set up an official Center For > Something Research". So if you're looking for grad schools, you want to be > looking at things with longevity, like the MIT Media Lab, or Purdue's > computer > security expertise, or a lot of the stuff being done at CMU or Stanford or > Berkeley. It sucks to transfer to a grad school for 3 years, only to have > the > project you transferred for go away a year later.... > > (And many of those projects never see the light of day, because they often > end > up being some variant of "If we measured metric X better, we could do a > better > job of predicting what to do with Y" - but it often turns out that > measuring X > better costs more than the added efficiency of Y gains you....) > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >
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