NEW ORLEANS: Who writes Linux? Perhaps the better question is who doesn't write it? § In particular, the Foundation found that: Nearly 10,000 developers from more than 1,000 companies have contributed ...

Nearly 2,000 developers started contributing to Linux in the past 15 months, making up nearly half of all developers writing code for the open source operating system kernel. The new developers are ...

If we look at just the bugs that were fixed in 2025, that share increases to 20% of said bugs being around for five years or ...

The Linux kernel development cycle continues with the release of Linux 6.19-rc4, the fourth release candidate in the lead-up ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a ...

Which Linux distributions will rise above the competition in 2026 to dethrone the old guard? These are my picks.

The open-source operating system project is steadily growing through any number of measurements: programmers, updates, and changes per hour. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to startup IPOs to open-source and cloud software companies. He is CEO and founder of Nodeable, ...

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