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Why do you say strange? Linux has thousands, maybe tens of thousands of developers working on the kernel. The pace of progress is absolutely monumental. This
by masmullin 11y ago
Why do you say strange? Linux has thousands, maybe tens of thousands of developers working on the kernel. The pace of progress is absolutely monumental.
This isn't strange, this is inevitability. OSX and Windows simply cannot compete, Im rather shocked that they are still trying.
- unfunco 11y agoJust under 5k contributors in total[0] – There's likely a lot less than that working on it actively, and the number working on the Linux kernel full-time will be much lower than that also. [0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/contributors https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/contributors Both Microsoft and Apple can compete.
- colechristensen 11y agoThis is likely not an accurate representation of who is actually working on the kernel. Whole teams of people might work on a patch which gets bundled up into a single commit.
- copperx 11y agoCompete in which areas? As much as I love Linux, it is obvious that UX decisions aren't amenable to the bazaar model. Call Windows 8 UX a fiasco; it's still far more consistent that any Linux desktop environment.
- slantyyz 11y ago>> This isn't strange, this is inevitability. OSX and Windows simply cannot compete, Im rather shocked that they are still trying. While Linux is my go-to operating system for servers, it is still a distant third for me as a desktop OS. I regularly try out Linux desktops of various distros, and I always end up preferring OSX and Windows over them. For me at least, clearly OSX and Windows can still compete. In fairness to Linux, the desktop environment has advanced leaps and bounds over the past decade. Just not enough to win me over... yet.