Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 19th Aug 2009 20:54 UTC
Linux The Linux Foundation has made some analyzation the past two years into just how much code is being added to the project and who is doing that contribution. This year's report is out, and the results are actually quite smile-worthy if you're a Linux advocate: the increase in code contributions is phenomenal, the rate at which these contributions are being submitted is faster, and there are more individual developers than previously.
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james_parker
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"And as I understand it Google's "OS" is just a Linux distribution, isn't it?

No. Chrome is a completely different OS built on top of the Linux kernel. It will be binary incompatible with GNU/Linux.
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No, Chrome is a new distribution with a new (non X-Windows based) GUI application and framework on top of Linux; Linux is the OS. It will probably include many GNU applications and libraries as well.

Edited 2009-08-20 16:31 UTC

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