CNET News.com's Stephen Shankland reports on the recently held Linux kernel summit. Shankland writes . . .

“The programmers at the top of the Linux hierarchy gathered last weekend in an effort to make the arrival of the next version of the operating system quicker and less haphazard.”

“About 30 top programmers — including Linux founder Linus Torvalds, and Linux luminaries Alan Cox, Stephen Tweedie, David Miller and Donald Becker — gathered in San Jose, Calif. to hash out the future of the next version of Linux. The Kernel Summit likely will become an annual event because there's no longer enough time for the old process–informal gatherings at trade shows–said summit organizer, VA Linux Systems employee, and fellow Linux programmer Ted T'so in a conference call Tuesday”

“Predictable improvements to Linux have become more important as the software grows from its hobbyist roots into a business venture with the involvement of companies such as Red Hat, Transmeta, Caldera Systems, SuSE and IBM . . .”

“One difference this time around is that new features in the 2.5 development kernel likely will be 'backported' to the 2.4 kernel as they become stable enough to use . . . This technique was used with the older 2.2 kernel, which benefited from 2.3 enhancements to support features such as USB (universal serial bus) connections . . .”

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