Skip to main content

19 Percent of Linux Kernel Development by Independent Contributors aka Passionate People!

13 Million Lines of Code, Nearly 6 Patches Per Hour, Growing Strong as Ever!!

The Linux Foundation has published its third annual report about Linux kernel authorship. The statistics include growth trends in the kernel development process and also provides insight into the level of contributions done by individual contributors and corporate sponsors.

The latest version of the Linux kernel currently consists of nearly 13 million lines of code across over 33,000 files. The rate of development peaked with version 2.6.30 last year, which saw an average of 6.40 patches per hour.

Comments

Post a Comment

Have an opinion or suggestion?

Popular posts from this blog

Ubuntu Wireless disabled: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not permitted

 Not again! I was working on my box (Ubuntu 10.10, HP Compaq) and I forced a reboot. On turning back my laptop, I noticed my laptop wireless was not connected to my home network. I clicked on my network-manager and there it goes "wireless network disabled". I remembered I had this problem some time ago on Ubuntu 9.04 and after wandering on several forums I got it working.  From experience, this problem normally occurs when you power off you system abnormally :) So many forums suggested different hacks but not close to the solution so they never got it working perfectly. To solve this problem, Simply run the command below:     $sudo rm /dev/rfkill After that, simply reboot your computer    $sudo shutdown -r now When you reboot the device /dev/rfkill deleted will be re-created automatically and you should be able to connect back to your network.
33 comments
Read more

Cool Tips

...quite sometime I 've blogged.  Now is the time to quickly show you a very nice utility that I came across. Imagine you want to share a folder or file real quick on you Linux box for a windows friend.  For a n00b, this can be quite intimidating.... Now, you can feel free to share anything with a small web server.  Run the command on your terminal, note you must have python installed. python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080 All you need to do is to run it in the folder you want to start browsing. Now you can go to your browser and type hostname:8080 Hope you find it helpful...!
1 comment
Read more