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If you're an operating system zealot--whether you love Linux or militate for Microsoft--you should read this excellent article: A Tale of Four Kernels. You can get the publication details there, the short story is it's published by the ACM, and it's for real.

What's the bottom line? After examining source code of four leading kernels: FreeBSD, Linux, OpenSolaris, and the Windows Research Kernel (WRK), it turns out that:

The aggregate results indicate that across various areas and many different metrics, four systems developed using wildly different processes score comparably. This allows us to posit that the structure and internal quality attributes of a working, non-trivial software artifact will represent first and foremost the engineering requirements of its construction, with the influence of process being marginal, if any.

Thinking about trying out an open source development platform? Here's a good article to get you started: Get Started With the Eclipse Platform, all about Eclipse, from IBM's developerWorks.

I found the original link here: Get started with the Eclipse Platform, at the popular meta website, Digg.

Now, you can read the original article, go read up at Eclipse, even download and install it, but check out the Digg comments from real users and you'll get valuable information not easily available anywhere else.

The benefit of Digg is a quick sampling of opinions from people who know enough about Eclipse to have an opinion, and who care enough about it to post those opinions on Digg.