Open-Source Effervescence Part 2 of 3: Operating Systems & The Software Ecosystem
Open-Source Effervescence Part 2 of 3: Operating Systems & The Software Ecosystem Contents The Linux Kernel: Effervescence at Planetary Scale Distributions: The Same Kernel, Countless Personalities BSD: A Quieter, Deliberate Fizz The Wider Software Ecosystem in Motion In Part 1 of this series, we traced open-source effervescence back to its foundations: the 1998 Open Source Definition, the transparency unlocked by publicly available source code, the culture of community contribution, the safety valve of forking, and a shared preference for open standards. Those foundations are abstract until you see them in action. This second instalment follows the fizz directly into the operating systems and software that people actually run — the Linux kernel and its enormous family of distributions, the more measured world of BSD, and the wider constellation of servers, databases, languages and tools built on top of it all. The Linux Kernel: Effervescence at Planetary Scale Few projec...
