How Many Linux Kernel Developers Are There?
Contents the Community of Linux Kernel Developers Comprises About 5000–6000 Members. According to the “2017 State of Linux Kernel Development”, a Study Issued...
The community of Linux kernel developers comprises about 5000–6000 members. According to the “2017 State of Linux Kernel Development”, a study issued by the Linux Foundation, covering the commits for the releases 4.8 to 4.13, about 1500 developers were contributing from about 200-250 companies on average.
How many developers work on Linux kernel?
Roughly 15,600 developers from more than 1,400 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel since 2005, when the adoption of Git made detailed tracking possible, according to the 2017 Linux Kernel Development Report released at the Linux Kernel Summit in Prague.
How many Linux kernels are there?
Different Types of Kernels
In general, most kernels fall into one of three types: monolithic, microkernel, and hybrid. Linux is a monolithic kernel while OS X (XNU) and Windows 7 use hybrid kernels. Let’s take a quick tour of the three categories so we can go into more detail later.
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