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Looking at the list here: [1] Most of the top employers are hardware companies, and therefore likely to contribute mostly driver patches. For example, the ranki
by tga_d 11y ago
Looking at the list here: [1] Most of the top employers are hardware companies, and therefore likely to contribute mostly driver patches. For example, the rankings by LoC for this release list AMD as over a third of the contributions, almost certainly because of their new AMDGPU driver. Drivers are important, of course, but hardly news-worthy. Red Hat is always near the top of the list, and they do a lot of both the drudge work and the interesting stuff, but I feel as though everyone in the Linux community already knows that.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/654633/ https://lwn.net/Articles/654633/
- digi_owl 11y agoI really do wonder what kind of numbers we would get if we did the same on a number of other large projects. I keep having the feeling that RH have a massive amount of say in the Linux ecosystem, for better or worse...
- staunch 11y agoRed Hat is probably the most important company in Linux history.
- olau 11y agoClearly for better. Most of the Google projects I've come across over the years are close to the throw-it-over-the-wall end of open source development, as opposed to Red Hat which seems to me to mostly let individuals participate. Their CEO has written a management book (or perhaps anti-management) which explains their take on these things in some detail. I'm pretty sure that if Red Hat had been running Android, it wouldn't be a big fork.
- buserror 11y agoOh, they /have/ their fork! cough systemd cough