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Is there a good place to learn more on the future of Linux ... specifically on how to avoid Linux forking? (similar to what happned to UNIX?) ... any good articles, websites, etc.?
"Is there a good place to learn more on the future of Linux ... specifically on how to avoid Linux forking? (similar to what happned to UNIX?) ... any good articles, websites, etc.?"
There is no master plan for Linux. So the future of Linux is whatever competent developers decide to make it. It is unlikely that Linux will fork. Instead when there is a divergence of opinion among developers good code drives out bad code based on merit.
i think the worse of the linux forking is over. linspire splitting to sell linux (make a profit from it, at least) and in reality, its not selling linux, but programs and a application service to go with it. i guess im saying the only forking that might go on is software companies developing their own distro with proprietary, closed source setup utilities, like SuSE did.
Linux is highly unlikely to fork.By its very design, it will have several "flavors" (distros), but changes are fed back up to the maintainers, who keep a stable base for everyone to build on.
Linus and the kernel maintainers have no fears of Linux forking, so I don't either.
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