About once a year, the Foundation Linux Foundation parses the online repository that holds the source code του πυρήνα, ή τον πυρήνα, του λειτουργικού συστήματος Linux. Καθώς παρακολούθει την αυξανόμενη πολυπλοκότητα του πυρήνα στις συνεχώς εξελισσόμενες εκδόσεις 3,0 – 3,10, η έκθεση αποκαλύπτει ποιος συμβάλλει στον κώδικα, και ποιες είναι οι κυρίαρχες εταιρείες που παίζουν ρόλο σε αυτό που ξεκίνησε σαν εθελοντική εργασία το 1991.
Who pays the bills?
While volunteer contributors still account for most of the developers, over 80% of the code comes from people who are paid for their work. The Linux Foundation notes that contributions have grown from companies that make mobile and embedded systems such as Linaro, The Samsung and Texas Instruments. (* the involvement of companies is not necessarily good, as no one knows what is hidden behind them)
The Gatekeepers
Contributions from individual developers have been signed-off before being incorporated into the official core code. Here businesses really dominate, with just over one 5% of approvals from volunteer developers.
The Writers
The above developers write the most code in the updates for versions 3.2 - 3.10.
The Kernel growing up
The increase in the size of the Linux kernel is due to the incorporation of important new features, including a system files optimized for solid-state drives to support 64-bit ARM microprocessors used in embedded and portable Appliances.
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