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Many people are wrong to think that, Linux or a group of hackers in writing, these guys all day long stay in the bedroom of their parents, social activities is the only play online role-playing game, or IRC chat room for Vi or Emacs Which one is outstanding and a war of words, or for what Picard and Kirk who is serious debate. Only is all.

Linux Foundation recently released a report on the Linux kernel development report, which focused on the development direction of the Linux kernel, the latest developments as well as what to do, there is who made a contribution to the core, and so on. The report is based on Linux kernel development over the past three years, from 2.6.11 to 2.6.24, finally concluded: Linux kernel development of the key personnel are sponsored by enterprises.

That the more detailed point that is, in the past three years, 70 percent to 95 percent of Linux developers of the Linux community%26#39;s development work is a reward, and these costs are paid by enterprises, the report also pointed out that over 70% The following is the core contribution to the company%26#39;s employees, these companies is: IBM, Intel, Linux Foundation, MIPS Technology, NontaVista, Movial, NetApp, Novell and Red Hat.

The last three years in the development of Linux Kernel number of staff has also been growth in the 2.6.11 version of the 483 people only when the code was eventually received in the kernel, 2.6.24 version of the time, there are more than 1,057 developers The core code was adopted by the code custody staff. In the past three years, a total of 3,678 developers of the code was accepted by the Linux kernel.

The report holds that even if the core development of a substantial increase in the number of staff, but to do the main work of developing the core number has not increased. The last three years, the development of the top 10 who completed nearly 15 percent of the work, the former 30 to complete the development of a 30 per cent of the workload. In fact, the development of the top five officers completed a nearly 8.5 percent of the work of these officers are: Al Viro (1.9% core code amended); David Miller (1.8%); Adrian Bunk (1.7%); Ralf Baechle (1.6 %); And Andrew Morton (1.5%).

In all developers, 74.1 percent in the development of their Linux-related companies engaged in the work, and 12.9% of developers to engage in other occupations, and they contributed 10 percent of the core development work, only the remaining 13.9% Linux kernel developers will develop as their hobby.

Therefore, as a hobby, Linux enthusiasts on the Linux kernel made a great contribution, but the business developer is the main force in the development of Linux, according to the core contribution to the development of these enterprises ranked as follows:
1) Red Hat, 11.2 percent
2) Novell, 8.9 percent
3) IBM, 8.3 percent
4) Intel, 4.1 percent
5) LF, 3.5 percent
6) SGI, 2.0 percent
7) MIPS Technology, 1.6 percent
8) Oracle, 1.3 percent
9) MontaVista, 1.2 percent
10) Linutronix, 1.0 percent.

In addition, the role of consultation, the development of Linux has also made contributions to 2.5 percent.