Linux Kernel

Development
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
github.com/gregkh/kernel-development

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21,400,000 lines

Kernel release 4.6.0

4,054 developers
450 companies

Kernel releases 4.1.0 4.6.0

June 2015 May 2016

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Every day
Kernel releases 4.1.0 4.6.0
June 2015 May 2016

8.1 changes per hour

Kernel releases 4.1.0 4.6.0

June 2015 May 2016

8.9 changes per hour

4.6 release

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc

How we stay sane

Time based releases
Incremental changes

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc

New release every

2 months

Kernel releases 3.10.0 3.14.0

Longterm kernels
One picked per year
Maintained for two years

3.14 4.1 4.4

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc

Top developers by quantity

Geert Uytterhoeven
Arnd Bergmann
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
H. Hartley Sweeten
Chaehyun Lim
Ville Syrjl
Linus Walleij
Al Viro
Mateusz Kulikowski
Leo Kim

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Kernel releases 4.1.0 4.6.0

Top Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman
10163
David S. Miller
6577
Mark Brown
2905
Linus Torvalds
2512
Daniel Vetter
2446
Ingo Molnar
2394
Andrew Morton
2392
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2262
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 1754
Kalle Valo
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Kernel releases 4.1.0 4.6.0

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