Top kernel contributors – Just so people remember who really brings them the Linux they love so much.
In the same breath a congratulations must go out to Novell on their exceptional 250% growth in contributions this year firmly establishing them as part of the Linux ecosystem. Novell have really gone above and beyond, letting Greg Kroah-Hartmann work fulltime on the Linux Driver Project and being instrumental in convincing ATI to go open. Pouring money into getting Mono a proper QA team which caused a noticable improvement in the Mono stack, as well as their strong commitment to bringing a fully functional version of Silverlight to Linux users. The Hackweeks, Tasque, Tomboy, the wonderful Banshee, so many efforts often overlooked. I thank you for your fine work gentlemen.
timlau said,
April 3, 2008 at 11:51
I had the same thought about the contribution from Canonical to the Linux Kernel, off cause the kernel is just one comment of a Linux Contribution, but a very vital one, how can you make a mayor distribution without have some mayor kernel hackers, i don’t understand that.
davidnielsen said,
April 3, 2008 at 14:36
The kernel is just one example.. I’ve tried to grep for @ubuntu and @canonical in many source trees familar in their product.. very few real contributions. Though I will say seb128 does an incredible job on gnomes bugzilla as part of his canonical work. I would love to see “the new hope” for the Linux desktop to engage itself more in contribution to the commons than investing in proprietary web service development.
Here’s to hoping.