The Linux kernel, thus, has become a common resource developed on a massive scale by companies which are fierce competitors in other areas. More at The Linux Foundation. Future Studio OS.

Linus Torvalds officially announced the stable release of the Linux kernel 6.15 on May 25, 2025. Its arrival was delayed for ...

Most Linux kernel code isn’t developed by who you might think. Here’s a closer look at why this matters. If you think that Linux is still the “rebel code”—the antiestablishment, software ...

Linux Foundation report shows for-profit companies provide 80-plus percent of kernel patches, with big role for mobile hardware developers Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

Between Linux 3.0 (July 2011) and Linux 3.10, more than 2.3 million lines of code have been added to the kernel. As of Linux 3.10, there was almost 17 million lines of source code in the Linux ...

In the latest report on who writes Linux, the answer comes to almost 10,000 programmers since 2005 and 1,100 in the last year alone.

Now more than ever, the development of the Linux kernel is a matter for the professionals, as unpaid volunteer contributions to the project reached their lowest recorded levels in the latest ...

The latest update of The Linux Foundation's report on Linux kernel development has been published. Since 2005, almost 10,000 individual developers representing 1,000 different companies have ...

Git is the name of the system that tracks changes made to the source code for the Linux kernel. It uses a series of 160-bit cryptographic hashes to account for the revisions.

Way back in April 2008, the Linux Foundation published a little report that upended a lot of perceptions about Linux development. Now, they've done it again. The report in question — Linux Kernel ...

That's what I thought, too, until I read The Linux Foundation's annual report on the state of the Linux kernel. The report's findings may surprise you. By Sebastian Anthony February 3, 2014 ...