Linux this year and next
Just when you think you understand Linux development, along comes something new. "There are no road d project's camera driver, and editor of the popular Linux site LWN.
"A lot of what's going to be in future kernels is already out there if you know where to look for it," Corbet explained at the Embedded Linux Conference Wednesday in Santa Clara, Calif.
Linux's "git" revision control system allows for fine-grained tracking of contributions, by developer and -- when you match developers to employers -- by organization. "At a minimum, two-thirds of the changes in the kernel are being done by people being paid to do it," Corbet said. He still lists about a quarter of kernel contributions as unknown, because they haven't been clearly identified as either volunteer or done on behalf of a company.
Red Hat developers account for 14% of kernel changes in the past year.
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