[9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread ron minnich
2.7M lines last year 10K lines added a day. 5K lines deleted per day. I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next? At the same time, well, as pointed out, we all use it all the time. I'm sending this from gmail. Or you can use Linux by googling these stats :-) ron

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:22 PM, ron minnich wrote: 2.7M lines last year 10K lines added a day. 5K lines deleted per day. At least by what i've seen, a good number of these submits have been fixing the same area, over and over again. How much of this is actually good development anyways (i.e

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:22:56AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: > 2.7M lines last year > 10K lines added a day. > 5K lines deleted per day. > > I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next? Are there stats indicating where the lines are added? If this is new hardware (drivers), the acc

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread erik quanstrom
> At least by what i've seen, a good number of these submits have been > fixing the same area, over and over again. How much of this is > actually good development anyways (i.e. The "does this really belong > here?" comments). [...] > Yup, and it works good! Of corse you can also use BSD by d

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:02 PM, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:22:56AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: 2.7M lines last year 10K lines added a day. 5K lines deleted per day. I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next? Are there stats indicating where the lines

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:04 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: At least by what i've seen, a good number of these submits have been fixing the same area, over and over again. How much of this is actually good development anyways (i.e. The "does this really belong here?" comments). [...] Yup, and it works

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread Jack Norton
ron minnich wrote: 2.7M lines last year 10K lines added a day. 5K lines deleted per day. I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next? At the same time, well, as pointed out, we all use it all the time. I'm sending this from gmail. Or you can use Linux by googling these stats :-)

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Jack Norton wrote: ron minnich wrote: 2.7M lines last year 10K lines added a day. 5K lines deleted per day. I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next? At the same time, well, as pointed out, we all use it all the time. I'm sending this from gmail

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Patrick Kelly wrote: > > On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Jack Norton wrote: > > ron minnich wrote: >> >>> 2.7M lines last year >>> 10K lines added a day. >>> 5K lines deleted per day. >>> >>> I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next? >>> >>> At the

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Sep 21, 2009, at 3:32 PM, David Leimbach wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Patrick Kelly wrote: On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Jack Norton wrote: ron minnich wrote: 2.7M lines last year 10K lines added a day. 5K lines deleted per day. I keep thinking this can't be sustained. Wh

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread andrey mirtchovski
it's on slashdot, it must be true: "During a roundtable discussion at LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon this afternoon, moderator and Novell distinguished engineer James Bottomley asked Tovalds whether Linux kernel features were being released too fast, before the kernel is stabilized. Citing an inter

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:12 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: it's on slashdot, it must be true: "During a roundtable discussion at LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon this afternoon, moderator and Novell distinguished engineer James Bottomley asked Tovalds whether Linux kernel features were being released

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread erik quanstrom
> > "We're getting bloated and huge. Yes, it's a problem," said Torvalds." > > So may be Tanenbaum was right, after all, there's a reason we make > things modular. rob, presotto, ken and phil did not agree with tanenbaum's ideas about modular kernels. this was a direct response to ast many yea

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread andrey mirtchovski
uriel keeps a copy of everything: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/andy_tanenbaum > > this was a direct response to ast many years ago.  it was > hard to dig up when i did so in 2006.  perhaps someone > has a better link:

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Sep 21, 2009, at 10:33 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: "We're getting bloated and huge. Yes, it's a problem," said Torvalds." So may be Tanenbaum was right, after all, there's a reason we make things modular. rob, presotto, ken and phil did not agree with tanenbaum's ideas about modular kerne

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread erik quanstrom
> We as people don't always agree on a subject. I can't agree completely > with some of the Bell labs staff on some subjects. C or C++ for > example, I strongly prefer Ada. that's cool. i like to do embedded work in object cobol. - erik

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread ron minnich
I skipped the panel. Those things are never interesting. I was working outside and heard lots of laughter however. ron

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread ron minnich
Having just read the register article, I'm now doubly glad I wasn't there I was working on Plan 9 :-) ron

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread Tim Newsham
this was a direct response to ast many years ago. it was hard to dig up when i did so in 2006. perhaps someone has a better link: - Microkernels are the way to go False unless your only goal is to get papers published. Plan 9's kernel is a fraction of the size of any microkernel

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:33 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: "We're getting bloated and huge. Yes, it's a problem," said Torvalds." So may be Tanenbaum was right, after all, there's a reason we make things modular. rob, presotto, ken and phil did not agree with tanenbaum's ideas about modular kernels

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:12 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > it's on slashdot, it must be true: > > "During a roundtable discussion at LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon this > afternoon, moderator and Novell distinguished engineer James Bottomley > asked Tovalds whether Linux kernel features were being

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> > - Microkernels are the way to go > >False unless your only goal is to get papers published. > >Plan 9's kernel is a fraction of the size of any microkernel > >we know and offers more functionality and comparable > >or often better performance. > > not intendin

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:33 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > "We're getting bloated and huge. Yes, it's a problem," said Torvalds." > > > > So may be Tanenbaum was right, after all, there's a reason we make > > things modular. > > rob, presotto, ken and phil did not agree with tanenbaum's > ideas

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> Are these systems more complex to reason about though? Probably :-). But > when you've only got 7 system calls (per the original L4 specifications I've > read over) you don't really have a lot to debug. Just gotta make sure you > chose the correct primitives to compose all the software you ne

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:33 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > "We're getting bloated and huge. Yes, it's a problem," said Torvalds." >>> >>> So may be Tanenbaum was right, after all, there's a reason we make >>> things modular. >>> >> >>

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:17 AM, J.R. Mauro wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:12 PM, andrey mirtchovski > wrote: > > it's on slashdot, it must be true: > > > > "During a roundtable discussion at LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon this > > afternoon, moderator and Novell distinguished engineer James B

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:47 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > Are these systems more complex to reason about though? Probably :-). > But > > when you've only got 7 system calls (per the original L4 specifications > I've > > read over) you don't really have a lot to debug. Just gotta make sure > y

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Sep 22 11:06:37 EDT 2009, leim...@gmail.com wrote: > The argument is that if something is logically separable from a larger > system, and independently testable, then once you've verified it is correct, > and that the "glue" is correct that is used to compose a larger system, that > you can

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:14 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Tue Sep 22 11:06:37 EDT 2009, leim...@gmail.com wrote: > > The argument is that if something is logically separable from a larger > > system, and independently testable, then once you've verified it is > correct, > > and that the "glue" i

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread Tim Newsham
not intending to pour gas on the flames, but there have been a number of ukernels since that are a fraction of the size of p9 (and less functional, by design). Some with very good performance. i'm not sure what "good performance" means. is there enough functionality in current µkernels to even

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> btw, there's even been one ukernel recently that has a formal > proof of correctness (against its specification and some containment > properties). Roughly a 10 man-year effort for about 7.5kloc. > Not something you'd likely be able to do yet against something linux- > sized. the other way of l

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > btw, there's even been one ukernel recently that has a formal > > proof of correctness (against its specification and some containment > > properties). Roughly a 10 man-year effort for about 7.5kloc. > > Not something you'd likely be abl

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread Richard Uhtenwoldt
J.R. Mauro writes: >Another thing they won't consider is having separate versions for >high-end servers and PCs. I don't understand why Torvalds thinks Linux >has to be all things to all people. the Linux running on a high-end server is probably compiled from the same (evolving over time) source t

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread Jack Norton
Richard Uhtenwoldt wrote: J.R. Mauro writes: Another thing they won't consider is having separate versions for high-end servers and PCs. I don't understand why Torvalds thinks Linux has to be all things to all people. the Linux running on a high-end server is probably compiled from the

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread Chad Brown
On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:17 AM, J.R. Mauro wrote: Another thing they won't consider is having separate versions for high-end servers and PCs. I don't understand why Torvalds thinks Linux has to be all things to all people. Back when I cared about linux for servers (not high-end hardware, but lar

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread Tim Newsham
i'm not clear on what all functional correctness entails. can a functionally correct program suffer from deadlock or livelock? Yes. It depends on if that property was stated as part of the specification of what correctness means. That is definitely something that can be stated and proven. I'm

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread Tim Newsham
i'm not clear on what all functional correctness entails. can I thought I'd go into a little more detail about what they did since my last email probably doesnt clear it up very much. They wrote a model of their operating system in a high level language (Haskell). They then translated the

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Jack Norton wrote: Richard Uhtenwoldt wrote: J.R. Mauro writes: Another thing they won't consider is having separate versions for high-end servers and PCs. I don't understand why Torvalds thinks Linux has to be all things to all people. the Linux running on

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread Jason Catena
> There were no proofs about the behavior of the C compiler or the underlying > cpu. In related news, there is a verified Clight compiler out there for PowerPC machines. Leroy, X. 2009. Formal verification of a realistic compiler. Commun. ACM 52, 7 (Jul. 2009), 107-115. DOI= http://doi.acm.or

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Arnold
On 22/09/2009, at 4:47 PM, Jack Norton wrote: In the end I don't care what the linux devs do, but they need to come up with a game plan and either fork (server, desktop linux) or include it all and try and make everyone happy (the latter will end in chaos me thinks). There are several Lin

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-24 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM, David Arnold wrote: > On 22/09/2009, at 4:47 PM, Jack Norton wrote: > > In the end I don't care what the linux devs do, but they need to come up >> with a game plan and either fork (server, desktop linux) or include it all >> and try and make everyone happy (the l

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-24 Thread Iruata Souza
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Patrick Kelly wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM, David Arnold wrote: >> >> On 22/09/2009, at 4:47 PM, Jack Norton wrote: >> >>> In the end I don't care what the linux devs do, but they need to come up >>> with a game plan and either fork (server, deskt

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-24 Thread Jacob Todd
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:21:35AM -0400, Patrick Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM, David Arnold wrote: > > > On 22/09/2009, at 4:47 PM, Jack Norton wrote: > > > > In the end I don't care what the linux devs do, but they need to come up > >> with a game plan and either fork (server,

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-27 Thread erik quanstrom
> wrong door, sir. > search for linux in the door with the penguin. > Thanks they no longer have a door. they have a two-door interlock system. you can enter the space any time you'd like, but you may never leave. that's the hotel linux for ya. - erik

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-27 Thread Patrick Kelly
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Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-30 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:02:02 +0200 tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:22:56AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: > > 2.7M lines last year > > 10K lines added a day. > > 5K lines deleted per day. > > > > I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next? > > Are there stats