Hello, A few days ago Greg k-h posted in his blog asking to send questions that he could make in his interview with Linus at LinuxCon Japan. Sadly his keynote is tomorrow so I'm a bit late to send him a question I would like to ask Linus, key kernel developers and companies sponsoring Linux development. Instead I will make the question in this list to know what you people think about. My question is: why academia contribution to the Linux kernel is negligible? In the last linux foundation report about who is sponsoring the Linux kernel development, academia contribution was less than 1.5%. Being involved in the academia as a PhD student I have my own conclusions that are very similar to the ones exposed by Thomas Gleixner in his lwn.net article "academia v. reality" (http://lwn.net/Articles/397422/). How can the Linux foundation and companies behind Linux improve this? Academia has too much resources (both human and financial) that can be used to improve Linux. LTTng and Linux Checkpoint/Restart (linux-cr) are two examples that academia can produce features to enhance the kernel. Best regards, -- Javier MartÃnez Canillas (+34) 682 39 81 69 PhD Student in High Performance Computing Computer Architecture and Operating System Department (CAOS) Universitat AutÃnoma de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
