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Is it just me that feels dirty learning about the linux kernel from an Oracle page?

• PenguinCoder 3y ago
  Feels wrong, but the information density and presentation are pretty good for this. Easy to understand I think.
• unmole 3y ago
  It's just you.
  • mlry 3y ago
    No. It's not. I'm glad someone shared this feeling because I had it too.
    • nottorp 3y ago
      I'm really surprised this is not behind some $400/seat/month subscription paywall too...
      • claudex 3y ago
        It is, now Oracle lawyers will sent a letter with a settlement proposition for only 800k$ to your company for accessing the web page /s
        • nottorp 3y ago
          I don't have 800k. Will a kidney and my first born do?
• jakogut 3y ago
  As a counter-example, Zstd is created and primarily developed by a Meta employee. I also felt the same way upon opening the article, but companies are made of individuals, and often individuals do valuable and insightful work, even inside of bureaucratic and Kafkaesque organizations like Oracle.
• Twirrim 3y ago
  For what it's worth, Oracle is one of the largest contributors to the kernel, especially if you filter out the drivers subtree, which tends to skew the metrics for various reasons (lots of large generated code, almost identical arm SoC variants etc) It would be really odd if they couldn't teach you about the kernel.
• tyingq 3y ago
  A bit, but there's plenty of very smart people there, and this particular page seems controlled by the engineers and not the leadership.