> Linus Torvalds' creation has expended [sic] to 17 million lines of code.
Not to worry: the same code can get used over and over without being consumed.
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
#22Can'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.
Moto X uses F2FS.
"The Moto X’s pseudo-stock Android 4.2.2 uses ext4 for all partitions with the exception of user data storage, which uses F2FS (Flash Friendly File System)"
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#23Seeing 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?
Because the hardware and OS companies are working together on this, and the hardware doesn't ship until it works in its target OS. In Linux, volunteers are poking around blindly tryign to get the hardware to do what they ask while the hardware vendor has all the information and isn't sharing it.
That's what I used to think but now that I see that there are that many chip makers contributing I'm starting to wonder. But it's probably as varikin says, they're working on different kinds of drivers.
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Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#25Redhat 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…
I've been using linux mint for a couple years now, and I have the feeling that mint is growing more than ubuntu.
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I've been using linux mint for a couple years now, and I have the feeling that mint is growing more than ubuntu.
Do you have any data to back up that feeling?
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#27Is 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...
The article says that briefly. Didn't you read it?
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#28Can'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?
Here is a technical overview:
Re: Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The majority of desktop installations are either Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based, and Ubuntu is quickly becoming the server of choice as well. Unless you are using unity, I don't see why a distribution should be called ubuntu based instead of debian based. A lot of "Ubuntu derivatives" are not based on unity. Sure Ubuntu has a betteer installer and pretty themes, but the base is undeinably debian.
> Sure Ubuntu has a betteer installer Highly debatable. "Most accessible" installer perhaps, but as far as I am concerned, Debian's netinst has yet to be beat. Style isn't exactly high on my list of priorities during installation, it's not like that is something I do to show off in coffee-shops.
You are right, that is what I meant. Something a person fairly new to Linux can use.
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> The majority of desktop installations are either Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based, and Ubuntu is quickly becoming the server of choice as well. Unless you are using unity, I don't see why a distribution should be called ubuntu based instead of debian based. A lot of "Ubuntu derivatives" are not based on unity. Sure Ubuntu has a betteer installer and pretty themes, but the base is undeinably debian.
> Unless you are using unity, I don't see why a distribution should be called ubuntu based instead of debian based. Because Ubuntu is more than Unity. I mean, by the "Unity or its not Ubuntu-based" standard you propose, Kubuntu (which is exactly Ubuntu -- sharing all the same repos -- with the KDE desktop and apps installed by default) wouldn't be an "Ubuntu-based distribution". Heck, Ubuntu Server, since it doesn't…
Well you'll have to show me what Ubuntu has that Debian does not. Kubuntu, I suspect, is only named because it was originally sponsored by Canonical. Nothing more.