Chapter 583: LINX Open Source

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On this 201314 festival day, what does it mean not to smash two votes?

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When Lin Hong proved that multiple consciousnesses could coexist in a single consciousness space, he withdrew from it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

How exactly can he achieve this step, Lin Hong has not figured it out for the time being, the only thing that can be determined is that he has this ability.

When the two sisters, Chen Qinghe and Chen Qinglian, left Lin Hong's office, Zhang Jin, who had been secretly paying attention, came to Lin Hong's office.

"Brother Lin, in broad daylight, you don't have to be so anxious, right?" Zhang Jin said playfully, "That's okay, but you have to pay attention to the impact and close the office door, right?" ”

Lin Hong looked at her and was stunned, and only then did he understand what she meant.

He couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Where do you think, it's not like you think." The two sisters had just asked me for something, and I happened to do a little experiment with them. ”

Zhang Jinhu looked at Lin Hong suspiciously for a long time, and finally chose to believe Lin Hong suspiciously.

She shrugged and said, "These things are not my jurisdiction, so I won't say more." That's all for today, and I'll start tomorrow on vacation. ”

Lin Hong nodded and said, "Okay, you have a good rest for a while, and the company's affairs will be left to me." ”

Lin Hong has made up his mind that during this time, he will develop the company well and let the company enter the track of rapid development.

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Early the next morning, Lin Hong held a plenary meeting of the Linx Technology Department.

In fact, Lin Hong is not satisfied with the speed of Linx's progress. After such a long time, it is only some functional expansion and tinkering with the previous version, and there are no commendable revolutionary improvements at all, and it is still carried out in the original framework he set.

However, this can't be blamed on the developers of the technical department, they are able to do this quite well, after all, they can't compare with Lin Hong. In China, their technical level in this field is already equivalent to the top.

Of course, compared to some of the world's top players. There is still a certain gap.

Lin Hong believes that in order for Linx to grow rapidly, it will eventually grow into an operating system comparable to the current UNIX, Linux and Windows. It is necessary to build a community of developers with the power of open source, as Linux does, and involve programmers from all over the world in the project.

This is to take advantage of the situation, gather the wisdom of all people to serve this project, and ultimately produce a huge effect.

The reason why Linux has been able to grow so rapidly is because there are so many programmers around the world who are quietly contributing code to it.

Linx wants to be open source.

When Lin Hong announced the news to everyone, it also caused a lot of discussion among everyone for a while.

Some are for and some are against.

Those who oppose it are basically worried about the security of the system.

After all. Now that the Tricolor Fire Company has cooperated with the military, some important systems used in armaments are Linx, if it is open-sourced, will it lead to an invasion?

And those who agree, think. While open source is likely to pose some security issues, this can only be said to be temporary.

If it's just security because of secrecy, it's certainly not real security, and eventually these vulnerabilities will definitely come to light one day, and it's better to open up the code than that. Let the world's experts test it, so that the code will become more robust and the vulnerabilities will be fewer and fewer.

Basically, the main ones who have this concern are the seconded technicians from the National University of Defense Technology, although open source is indeed a very good solution, but for military systems, it is not a very good choice.

In their opinion, LINX is best positioned in the field of military systems, strictly controlling the level of secrecy of the source code to ensure maximum system security.

These people in the technical department were divided into two distinct factions, and everyone argued and expressed their opinions in the venue, and the whole venue almost became a debate.

Lin Hong didn't expect his decision to cause such a big reaction from everyone.

However, his commitment to open source LINX has not wavered.

Linx security or not, does not depend on whether the source code is open or not, the real master, even if you do not open the source code, you can also find vulnerabilities, after all, some vulnerabilities are not the system itself, but based on the existing protocols, no matter how secure the system is, it is still necessary to comply with the current protocols, otherwise there is no universality at all, you have to develop everything yourself.

Windows is closed-source, and the source code is strictly confidential, but is it not the same and full of vulnerabilities? Constantly hanging high on the list of insecure systems?

Lin Hong has always believed that there is no absolutely safe system at all, and the most unsafe factor lies in people.

Of course, the opposition's concerns are also justified, but Lin Hong has another solution, not a system that shares the same code with a civilian system.

However, he did not bring this up at the meeting, but directly said very authoritarianly: "LINX open source, I am not asking for everyone's opinion, but just announcing this fact." This concludes the meeting. ”

Strictly speaking, this was the first meeting held after the company's restructuring and relocation, and it was also the first controversial decision made by Lin Hong.

For the early development of the company, Lin Hong absolutely does not allow any opposition within the company, especially in the field of technology.

The news quickly spread throughout the company.

It can be said that many people have seen Lin Hong's strength for the first time.

And the old people feel that this situation is very normal, in the field of technology, Lin Hong has absolute authority, they have been accustomed to absolute obedience, not that they do not object, but they feel that the gap between themselves and the boss is too big, and the two are not a power level at all.

In the end, the news reached the ears of Zhang Jin, who was on vacation.

After Zhang Jin heard this, he did not call Lin Hong to persuade him of this decision as the other party requested, but just said lightly: "He is the president of the company and the largest shareholder." ”

Of course, in private, Zhang Jin finally called Lin Hong and asked him if he had informed the relevant military departments of the news, and in the end, she completed the matter.

Eventually, Linx was open sourced.

It was not publicized with much fanfare, but only established an open-source community, which appeared on the Internet quietly.

The web is like an ocean, every day new websites appear, and some websites disappear from this ocean.

The open source code will naturally form many versions, linux is currently like this, although it has just come out, but there are many versions of Yanyan, all kinds of versions have formed many platforms, everyone is developing in their own platforms, so that although a hundred flowers have formed a situation, adding a lot of different choices, but it has dispersed everyone's strength, resulting in a lot of repetitive development, waste of resources.

Linx, on the other hand, started with an official community.

Regardless of whether you have a branch or not, the official will always maintain a version, not only the kernel version, but also the software version outside the system.

Tricolor Fire develops a series of standards based on the actual situation, and then has programmers program according to these standards, so that the rules and platforms are as uniform as possible to achieve maximum compatibility.

The news of Linx open source is only spread in a small circle, spreading, and mainly limited to China, everyone's curiosity about Linx is that this is an operating system developed by a domestic company, just by virtue of this, it has attracted enough technical personnel to go to the FTP of the official open source community in the first time to download the source code to the local research.

However, at present, Linx is only a real-time embedded operating system for the time being, and it cannot run directly on the hardware of the PC.

And basically the people who download it and run it successfully are real insiders.

At the beginning, everyone didn't have much hope for this, after all, the three-color fire company has not appeared in everyone's field of vision for a long time, and at the beginning it was just a slightly technical compatible computer sales company, and in a blink of an eye, it was said that the operating system was written, and the span in the middle was too big, right?

However, when everyone read the code and saw the super hardware adaptability of Linx, they were a little surprised, and the truth was far beyond their imagination.

Soon, Linx spread word of mouth in the circle, and its beautiful and simple design ideas and structure were recognized by many people.

Gradually, some hardware and embedded communities abroad have come into contact with this system, some sporadic users have begun to appear, and some question posts have begun to appear on the official open source forum of Linx.

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After making the decision to open source Linx, Lin Hong's first task assigned to the members of the Linx project team was to write a general-purpose operating system driver module for Linx, so that Linx could run successfully on general-purpose PC hardware.

Of course, in order to save time, Lin Hong directly completed the rough framework and completed most of the source code.

Lin Hong's time limit for this module is one week.

Although he already has a prototype of such a system in his notebook, there are some codes and technologies that are not suitable for public disclosure at the moment.

In order to further expand the influence of Linx and involve more programmers in development, it is necessary to increase the coverage of Linx, and it is clear that PC hardware is currently the most abundant and the most accessible.

Therefore, Lin Hong ranked the development of Linx's general-purpose operating system module in the first place.

Because of Lin Hong's return, the development of Linx has completely entered the fast lane, although it has just begun, but it is believed that in the near future, Linx will become a non-negligible operating system in the computer field.