Why Linux isn't attracting young developers

[Robyn Bergeron]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Tony Guntharp <fusion94 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This article primarily relates to Kernel development. The real issue
> is that kernel development is in fact "hard". It's generally far more
> difficult that anything you learn in school/university and most
> developers don't get to the skill level required to work on the kernel
> until they've been in the corporate workforce for years solving real
> problems not theoretical ones.

Well - and as is pointed out - the kernel wasn't this complicated back
when many of the developers were -in college- (or their early careers,
etc). If they were confronted then with what one is facing now as a
beginning kernel dev... it would be a whole different story.

There are also significantly more places to contribute now than 15+
years ago; people aren't as focused on "making my computer work" as
they are on "i want this XYZ application of mine to work."  I think
the problem is really that very few people think about how they could
further enhance how things work, fundamentally, when they're - for the
most part - generally happy with how things are working now.




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> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:13, Jan Wildeboer <jwildebo at redhat.com> wrote:
>> The *real* problem however is that young people hardly see any benefit in
>> becoming a develoiper. With universities that effectively are microsoft gold
>> resellers, with twitter, Facebook, Apple telling them that it still all is
>> AOL' 95, why should they care?
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> Jan
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>>  Though this seems to be a very specific article, it is still valid, and
>> the most interesting is actually the replies its having.
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>> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/04/18/1557220/Why-Linux-Is-Not-Attracting-Young-Developers
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>>  In case someone wants to check it out, I recommend it. And yes, this is
>> deeply related and a good source for Marketing people 8)
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