Friday, August 19, 2005

Fewer Defects Found in Latest Linux Kernel

"An analysis of the latest Linux kernel has found that it contains fewer critical defects than the previous version, despite an increase in the amount of code, a source-code analysis firm said Wednesday."

Coverity noted that there were six major potential critical defects six months ago. In this latest kernel release,2.6.12, those critical defects were cleared up. Score one for the open source methodology.


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