Noted Linux kernel and Novell developer Greg Kroah-Hartman will be devoting all his time to helping create Linux drivers.

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'It turns out that there were two large groups of people who responded to the announcement, companies wanting drivers, and developers wanting to help out,' Kroah-Hartman said. As of this September, 'It turns out that over 100 different developers offered up their services. Clearly this was a huge untapped group of talented people who wanted to help out.' And, 'the number of companies expressing interest in this has exceeded all of my wildest expectations. Already this announcement has caused a number of drivers to end up in the main Linux kernel source tree, with more in the pipeline.'
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-- Full speed ahead for Linux drivers