From whom is Linux?

From whom is Linux?

Google and Samsung have become major suppliers of codes for Linux, now both companies are among the ten largest contributors of code to the open source operating system running on servers, desktops and mobile devices. In a new report, Linux Kernel Development, published by the Linux Foundation, Samsung and Google are called the seventh and the eighth largest suppliers code for the kernel. They overtake the company Red Hat Intel, Texas Instruments, Linaro, Suse, and IBM. The report says that only in March 2012 in the Linux kernel was made about 92,000 additions or changes from 3738 suppliers.

None in the ranking - is the developer working on their own corporate sponsorship, and the Unknown - it's suppliers, the origin of which was not known, as well as private consultants. Authors rankings say the company Linaro, which produces software for ARM-systems, has made a giant leap from 0.7% to 4.1% of the code for the year. In the Linux Foundation said that Linaro, Samsung, Texas Instruments sum increased their share from 4.4% to 11% of changes. All of these companies are actively developing solutions for ARM-Linux and work in the embedded market.

Note that the Linux Foundation published a report once a year, but clearly does not have a release date. The previous report was released in April 2012 and covered the period from 2010 Decarie. At this time, the authors of the report say that Google and Samsung in particular have significantly strengthened their position at the same time with the increasing influence of the operating system Android, which is based on Linux. In the Linux Foundation stressed that adding the code from Google and Samsung is not connected only with the addition of Android-oriented code. So, Samsung has actively participated in the creation of codes for file systems, Linux, subsystem drivers, scheduler, while Google has been moving network solutions, security systems and cgroups.

Also in the annual report says that the linux kernel now has more than 17 million lines of code, which is 2 million more than the year before. In addition to data states that the developers have increased the speed of creating patches for the kernel.

The most important achievements in the development of linux-kernel The Linux Foundation calls to implement support for ARM-architecture, the improvement of the KVM hypervisor and Xen, improved load balancing for multi-core and multi-processor systems, and cistemy FSFS and support for new hardware solutions.

Another interesting trend - Microsoft Corp. continues to be a prominent Linux-kontribyuterom, supplying the program codes to improve the work and its Linux operating systems Windows. In just the last 688 years the corporation has made ​​the approved changes. Among all corporate kontribyuterov Microsoft has become the fifth largest, overtaking on the performance of the company Canonical, developer Ubuntu.

Also in the list includes the company Nvidia, which is located in 12th place.

Jim Zemlin, head of The Linux Foundation, says that now almost all the leading IT companies in one way or another involved in writing code for Linux. This is Microsoft, and the BlackBerry and even Apple (server version of Mac OS X).