2 years ago

Category: Software, Security, Kubernetes, android

That single decision to open source the Linux kernel meant that hundreds of thousands of developers and operators have directly and indirectly contributed to it — making it, perhaps, the single most significant codebase. Its dominance is so great — from Linux desktops to Windows OS to Android devices to the edge — that it’s estimated about half the world’s population is considered a Linux user, even if most of them don’t even realize it.

It is scaling different architectures, with respect to the number of systems that you can put together and with respect to the number of people that you are serving.

Eckermann: Even if Linux is unseen, is unknown to the higher levels that are on top of it, the benefit of Linux is that it is so configurable on the one side.

Software supply chain is a challenge for everybody, and we need to think how Linux in the future can give customers the trust that it is really produced with security in mind, as well as how Linux — as a distribution or as a package or as a host or as a guest or as a container — is produced and consumed in a way that is visibly secure.