CiprianDorinCraciun/Presentations/2009/ItFest/Slides/10-LinuxOverview

Linux -- Overview

• introduction:

  • the core of most OpenSource operating systems (generically named GNU/Linux OS);

  • interposed between the hardware and applications;
• project scale:
  • the largest component in any running GNU/Linux systems;
  • regular 2-3 moth stable releases;
  • almost 10 thousand changes in each release from about 1 thousand developers representing circa 100 corporations;

  • almost 9 million lines of code (for 2.6.24);

  • almost 3 changes per hour;

• references:

  • Linux Kernel Development, April 2008, by Greg Kroah-Hartman (SuSE Labs / Novell Inc.), Jonathan Corbet (LWN.net), Amanda McPherson (The Linux Foundation);

  • Linux, Wikipedia;