• Kernel development has split in too many trees (-mm, linux-next, subsystem trees etc.) and is proceeding at an enormous speed. It has become impossible to keep up with all updates for somebody who isn't directly involved in kernel development.
• Andrew Mortons mm-tree is not the "real" 2.6 development tree anymore. Linus diretly includes patches from other trees nowadays and features added to the mm-sources may stay there and never find their way into the vanilla kernel (like e.g. reiser4).
• Major news portals like Phoronix, Kernel Trap, Heise and others have started to write about kernel development. They do a much better job now than two years ago and the niche I have tried to fill is not a niche anymore.
• I started studies for a degree in Applied Informatics.

I learned many things in the last two years and would like to thank anybody who visited mm-traffic. We served more than 500.000 hits.

Simon "Sturmflut" Raffeiner, 13.02.2008