Jonathan Corbet is an active kernel contributor, co-founder and president of Linux development community news site LWN.net, and the lead author of Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition.

His renowned Kernel Report has been presented to audiences worldwide, and this year in Melbourne will mark his fourth appearance at Linux.conf.au, to be held in Melbourne, Australia, for six days from 28 January.

Here, Corbet offers a sneak peek at this year's Kernel Report.

Q: What is the main theme of your talk at Melbourne's Linux Conference?

A: The real purpose of my talk is to bring attendees up to date with regard to what is happening in the kernel development community. It is a fast-moving project which is very hard to keep up with - the Linux-kernel mailing list, alone, can run up to 500 highly technical messages per day. I do follow this community, though, and have gotten reasonably good at summarising what is happening there - and making hand-waving predictions about what will be happening in the near future.

Q: How has the kernel development process gone over the past year?

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