Friday, March 13, 2009

The Linux kernel map

Long time after my previous post... well, I've been busy with XBPS (that allows me to build my own Linux distribution) and real life. But tonight I've seen something that I'm really surprised about: there's a site where you can navigate through all the layers available in the Linux kernel, like you do with Google Maps.

It's fucking cool, You can even zoom in/out and click on any part you are interested. Great work for the folks that made it, really. I suggest you to look at it if you haven't seen it before:

http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map#sd

XBPS is reaching soon a fully usable state, where it will be able to compete at least with pacman, dpkg and pkg_install from NetBSD; but don't want to talk about it until it's complete. I'll only tell you that it's fast, really fast!