Re: What made you learn Linux?

On 2007-05-07, Bill Waddington <william.waddington@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Fortunately, it is less necessary to get "good at it" than it
was in the RH 5.2 days :) The user experience is getting
pretty smooth. The driver developer's life is still a PITA.

That's very much the truth.

The Linux kernel interface remains a moving target, and
requires constant vigilance for us low-life out-of-tree
developers.

My experiences exactly. Linux is a pretty hostile environment
for people like us that are trying to provide Linux device
drivers for hardware products that they sell.

The Linux kernel developers think nothing of compeletely
changing major kernel/driver APIs between minor revisions of a
supposedly "stable" kernel.

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