3 Jun
2014
3 Jun
'14
1:47 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 14:52:12 -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
But nostalgia aside, something I find interesting (and
frankly a bit
distressing) is what seems to me to simply be an acceptance that it's all
going to end with Linux. That is to say, no one ever seems to talk about
what will come *after* Linux. Will Linus's kernel truly be the last kernel
anyone works on seriously? Somehow I very much doubt that. And yet, you
don't see a lot of talk about evolutionary paths beyond Linux; it's a sort
of tunnel vision.
You (specifically) don't see a lot of evolutionary paths beyond
Linux because you're not looking for them. There is a lot of
innovation happening in illumos and BSD. Thanks to the
aforementioned rms, Linux has been about evangelism almost from
the start. The illumos and BSD communities are more focused on
great engineering rather than proselytization. Let Linux have
the fame; everyone who wants to do great work (that Linux users
will then want to steal, and then gripe about because of
licensing FUD) is elsewhere.
--
Chris Nehren