Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
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Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#2Can't wait for Google to replace ext4 with F2FS by default in Android. It offers significant speed improvement (~50 percent faster, or even 2x faster in some cases I think). There are a lot of performance improvements built into the new Linux kernels, too, along with 64-bit ARMv8 support, so those will be very welcome, too, if they arrive in Android 4.4.
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#3Redhat is at the top, Canonical nowhere to be found.
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#4Redhat is at the top, Canonical nowhere to be found.
In fact, the article addresses your point directly:
Canonical contributed 548 changes in the period studied in today's report and would have cracked the top 30 if the foundation hadn't included "none" and "unknown" in the rankings. The maker of Ubuntu has been criticized for years for not contributing more to the kernel (and recently clashed with Intel over patches submitted to the company's graphics driver), but Zemlin [Linux Foundation Executive Director] isn't upset. "I am not at all mad at them. I think they do good work," he said. "You just kind of choose what's important to your org and where you can add the most value to the project and how it intersects with your business. They choose to focus a lot of their time and energy at higher levels of the software stack."
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#5Redhat is at the top, Canonical nowhere to be found.
Actually unaffiliated programmers are at the top.
Canonical's contribution is more to the desktop and OS itself than to the kernel. The majority of desktop installations are either Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based, and Ubuntu is quickly becoming the server of choice as well.
Ubuntu is leading GNU/Linux adoption worldwide, which in itself is a huge contribution to the ecosystem, as it gets more programmers interested in various open source projects.
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#6Is there a break down of what get's worked on by whom?
Would be interesting to see what the hardware manufacturers are doing other than their own drivers. Probably fairer to if we're counting LOC...
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#7Can't wait for Google to replace ext4 with F2FS by default in Android. It offers significant speed improvement (~50 percent faster, or even 2x faster in some cases I think). There are a lot of performance improvements built into the new Linux kernels, too, along with 64-bit ARMv8 support, so those will be very welcome, too, if they arrive in Android 4.4.
It's pretty crazy for a Samsung filesystem to be actually good, considering their history with RFS...
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#8Can't wait for Google to replace ext4 with F2FS by default in Android. It offers significant speed improvement (~50 percent faster, or even 2x faster in some cases I think). There are a lot of performance improvements built into the new Linux kernels, too, along with 64-bit ARMv8 support, so those will be very welcome, too, if they arrive in Android 4.4.
This is the first I've heard of F2FS. Are there any good introduction-type writeups for it anywhere?
How far is it from production?
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#9Redhat is at the top, Canonical nowhere to be found.
Canonical is probably primarily focused on recreating the Mir wheel and other Unity/Ubuntu Phone/etc. I doubt a whole hell of a lot of that goes upstream.
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#10Seeing so many chip makers up there on the list makes me wonder about the state of Linux drivers. Why is it that Android and Chrome OS and Windows can make drivers actually work, but Linux on laptops will still predictably run hot and drain the battery like crazy?