Linux news

2007 07 03

Linux World Diversifies, Apparently Attracts More People

OLS closes on a keynote

Just a couple of days before this year's Ottawa Linux Symposium, I attended the annual Debian Conference (DebConf) in Edinburgh, Scotland. I saw fewer than five people in common between the two conferences -- a testament to the diversity and number of people involved in the Linux community.

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There was a poorly-researched report which tried to suggest otherwise. Related: Linux contributor base broadens

With more companies funding Linux work, the core hackers now delegate 70% of the coding

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Study: Developers Favor Linux

"Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the market." However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux apps than Windows apps.

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Linux Summit: Forget Microsoft. Let's Get Back To Development

"We add 2,000 lines of code a day to the Linux kernel. We work on 2,800 lines of code a day. I've never seen the pace of change that Linux has shown," said kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, citing the accelerated pace on the open source operating system.

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