One purpose of the group will be to try to build consensus for features that need to be added to the kernel, or heart, of Linux, and to reduce redundant programming efforts, OSDL developer John Cherry said in a mailing list posting this month. "No common kernel components will ever be mainlined unless there is agreement in the clusters community," he said. Representatives from OSDL, Sun Microsystems, Nortel Networks, Intel and Novell's SuSE Linux participated in the group's first conference call.
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