Hello, does anyone know any university that has lines of research on the linux kernel

[Maria Neptune]

Additionally, if you're really interested in free software at university,
UCLA's Paul Eggert is pretty prolific. So here may be worth considering.
- Maria


On Sat, Sep 28, 2019, 16:17 Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu>
wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 12:45:11 -0600, Manuel Quintero Fonseca said:
> > Hello, does anyone know any university that has lines of research on
> > the linux kernel
>
> Well.. most of the actual code development is being done out in industry
> and by individuals.  The stuff that happens in universities is usually more
> theoretical (new concepts in memory management, etc), and merely *uses*
> Linux as a platform because it's available.  Pretty much nobody is doing
> any research *on* the Linux kernel as itself (unless it's as a case study
> in
> managing large scale software development, or as a data point for code
> quality metrics and other such things).
>
> And there's a difference between "University ABC has a professor who's got
> this
> one project that happens to use Linux in it" and "University DEF has 4
> professors and 20 grad students who have set up an official Center For
> Something Research".  So if you're looking for grad schools, you want to be
> looking at things with longevity, like the MIT Media Lab, or Purdue's
> computer
> security expertise, or a lot of the stuff being done at CMU or Stanford or
> Berkeley.  It sucks to transfer to a grad school for 3 years, only to have
> the
> project you transferred for go away a year later....
>
> (And many of those projects never see the light of day, because they often
> end
> up being some variant of "If we measured metric X better, we could do a
> better
> job of predicting what to do with Y" - but it often turns out that
> measuring X
> better costs more than the added efficiency of Y gains you....)
>
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