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Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

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Re: Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

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Post by robertlagrant »

INTPenis wrote: post #8
d3m0t3p wrote: post #3

You can check company names too ! It's interesting to see that by default, the graph shows google,apple. But adding meta, and IBM really changes the plot. Meta went from 2K to 10K+ from 2018 to 2025. While IBM seems to have stopped contributing in 2008. Since they the merging with RedHat, I would have expected to see them increase again but none of RedHat / IBM seems to have increase. https://www.vidarholen.net/conte…

But why have Apple contributions skyrocketed? I have never heard of Apple using Linux in anything.

The recentness of this makes me wonder if this is Asahi contributions.

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Post by Zobat »

INTPenis wrote: post #8
d3m0t3p wrote: post #3

You can check company names too ! It's interesting to see that by default, the graph shows google,apple. But adding meta, and IBM really changes the plot. Meta went from 2K to 10K+ from 2018 to 2025. While IBM seems to have stopped contributing in 2008. Since they the merging with RedHat, I would have expected to see them increase again but none of RedHat / IBM seems to have increase. https://www.vidarholen.net/conte…

But why have Apple contributions skyrocketed? I have never heard of Apple using Linux in anything.

Apple is Berkeley Unix-based, while not actually Linux it's possible their contributions to open source have made it's way into Linux (me guessing, no real experience of either Linux or Mac).

Could also be that there's been work done to communicate with Apple specific products, again wild guesses but based on my perception of people working with Apple products is that there might be above average number of "edge cases" that needs addressing when communicating with those.

Re: Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

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Post by dijksterhuis »

robinhouston wrote: post #13

What's the story behind the Great Unfuckening that took place between v4.18-rc8 and v5.6?

i like to think it’s solely down to linus.

4.18 was the second half of 2018, around the time linus took some time away and went off doing therapy to work on his “communication issues”.

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