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

["Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>]

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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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