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MSR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Mining large software compilations over time: another perspective of software evolution
With the success of libre (free, open source) software, a new type of software compilation has become increasingly common. Such compilations, often referred to as ‘distributions...
Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González-B...
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Experiences teaching operating systems using virtual platforms and linux
Operating system courses teach students much more when they provide hands-on kernel-level project experience with a real operating system. However, enabling a large class of stude...
Jason Nieh, Chris Vaill
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Stability and Volatility in the Linux Kernel
Packages are the basic units of release and reuse in software development. The contents and boundaries of packages should therefore be chosen to minimize change propagation and ma...
John Champaign, Andrew J. Malton, Xinyi Dong
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Documenting and automating collateral evolutions in linux device drivers
The internal libraries of Linux are evolving rapidly, to address new requirements and improve performance. These evolutions, however, entail a massive problem of collateral evolut...
Yoann Padioleau, Julia L. Lawall, René Rydh...
COMPSAC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Managing Libre Software Distributions under a Product Line Approach
Software product lines have already proven to be a successful methodology for building and maintaining a collection of similar software products, based on a common architecture. H...
Israel Herraiz, Gregorio Robles, Rafael Capilla, J...