Re: 13.04 should be dedicated to performance.
Originally Posted by
lykwydchykyn
Um, if you write drivers you are a kernel developer by definition, since drivers go in the kernel.
There are hundreds (thousands?) of people contributing to the kernel, not to mention many major corporations. There are probably more kernel developers than Canonical employees. So many that
Linus has started telling people to go work on other open source projects, because the kernel has more than enough developers. The "Linux Drivers Project" (a special project dedicated solely to advancing Linux hardware support) itself boasts four hundred developers last time I checked.
See
http://www.linuxdriverproject.org for more information on it.
I was talking about how many devices are still unsupported by comparison. Also, the jump from the current 3.2.0-30 kernel to the 3.5.0-14 kernel should bring in tons of new drivers.
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