I just finished reading the report on the development of the Linux kernel. The study reported on such items as; who is developing the source code, who pays those developers, how many lines of code are added, changed and deleted per release. The detailed report can be found at Linux Development Report . Give it a read not so much for the sheer number of numbers, but for the way companies can work together.
The new report is written by original authors and kernel developers Jonathan Corbet and Greg Kroah-Hartman, and the Linux Foundation’s Amanda McPherson. It is released by the [...]
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Please…. No more 8080
Those of you who run many of the linux/java applications know that number “8080″. Right. It is the port address that almost every program that runs wants to use, http://localhost:8080/SomeApp. Unfortunately, only one can use the port at the same time. I don’t want to waste my time anymore finding and changing, then remembering the new port address that I was forced to change so I can run these applications simultaneously.
Seems like there is no imagination out in software land. Can’t software developers find other numbers to use… It’s really not [...]
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