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Linux rules the world. Where to next?;
SOURCE: zdnet.com (ARTICLE DATE: 23rd Aug 2016)
At LinuxCon, Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's executive director, said "Linux has gone far beyond what anyone could have expected" and that it's been the "most successful software project in history." He's right....
The latest Linux kernel report, Linux kernel development - How fast it is going, who is doing it, what they are doing, and who is sponsoring it, details just how quickly Linux changes. In the last 15 months, more than 3 million lines of code have been added to the Linux kernel. For those of you coding at home, that's 7.8 changes per hour.
Since the 3.18 release on December 7, 2014, just under 115,000 changesets have been merged from 5,062 individual developers representing nearly 500 corporations. The top developers work for, in this order, Intel, Red Hat, Linaro, Samsung, and SUSE. Thousands of developers still work on Linux independently of large corporations.
In the last year and a half, there have been many significant Linux improvements. These include:
, and what do you consider to be the advantages & disadvantages?
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POLL: Which of these Windows Operating Systems have you used?
SOURCE: zdnet.com (ARTICLE DATE: 23rd Aug 2016)
At LinuxCon, Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's executive director, said "Linux has gone far beyond what anyone could have expected" and that it's been the "most successful software project in history." He's right....
The latest Linux kernel report, Linux kernel development - How fast it is going, who is doing it, what they are doing, and who is sponsoring it, details just how quickly Linux changes. In the last 15 months, more than 3 million lines of code have been added to the Linux kernel. For those of you coding at home, that's 7.8 changes per hour.
Since the 3.18 release on December 7, 2014, just under 115,000 changesets have been merged from 5,062 individual developers representing nearly 500 corporations. The top developers work for, in this order, Intel, Red Hat, Linaro, Samsung, and SUSE. Thousands of developers still work on Linux independently of large corporations.
In the last year and a half, there have been many significant Linux improvements. These include:
- Live patching support.
- Persistent-memory device support.
- Encrypted storage for the ext4 filesystem.
- Adoption of the extended Berkeley packet filter (BPF) engine for in-kernel extensibility security-module.
- Numerous networking enhancements with a focus on IPv6 and datacenter improvements.
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MT Members: Which Operating System(s) do you use?..
, and what do you consider to be the advantages & disadvantages?
SEE ALSO-
POLL: Which of these Windows Operating Systems have you used?
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