Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Mon 14th Jul 2008 23:22 UTC
"Linux kernel hacker Greg Kroah Hartman's June 5, 2008 talk at Google titled "The Linux Kernel" was chock-full of details about kernel development". This is a collection of some statistics about the Linux kernel development from that talk. Juicy Bit:"Supports more processors and devices than any other OS in history".
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Member since:2007-07-13
Canonical had about 6 changes in the past 5 years; they are in the 300th
position. GKH was very emphatic that 'Canonical does not give back to the community'.
position. GKH was very emphatic that 'Canonical does not give back to the community'.
Possibly because Canonical are more concerned with user-space issues than kernel-space ones? Many of the bigger kernel changes seem to be to get it working well on big-iron or embedded systems, which is not the main space where Canonical have operated (although that may be changing).
Member since:2005-07-06
That the kernel does not concentrate on desktop issues is sort of a myth. There are tons of desktop specific work happening. Take a look at the latest release were webcam drivers are getting merged as just one item. Ubuntu is ignoring this process to a large extend and patching their kernel pretty heavily.
http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/127218.html
I doubt they are fairing much better in terms of user space patches including major projects like GNOME.
Member since:2005-07-26
Canonical had about 6 changes in the past 5 years; they are in the 300th
position. GKH was very emphatic that 'Canonical does not give back to the community'.
position. GKH was very emphatic that 'Canonical does not give back to the community'.
Currently Launchpad is holding more than 1700 kernel related bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux
Maybe Canonical doesn't directly pay kernel devs, but Ubuntu endorses lots of kernel development. Canonical is just an easy target because they're so well-known. But they're definitely not the same kind of company as Red Hat and shouldn't be viewed as such. Seeing their "Engineering" web page clearly proves that they're just getting started.
http://www.canonical.com/services/engineering
But seeing how they boast themselves about contributing to Linux tastes a little wrong, if GHK is just half right about his claims:
http://www.canonical.com/aboutus/contributions
But only 6 contributions!? Aaaaah, something's got to be wrong here.
Member since:2005-07-06
But only 6 contributions!? Aaaaah, something's got to be wrong here.
You are correct, there is something wrong.
http://blog.phunnypharm.org/2008/07/canonical-and-linux-kernel.html
That is not to say that Canonical contributes nearly as much as the Redhat team or others, but the numbers GregKH gave are inaccurate.
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2006-07-24
Canonical had about 6 changes in the past 5 years; they are in the 300th
position. GKH was very emphatic that 'Canonical does not give back to the community'.