*Hi Comrades, Happy May day [in advance], Yesterday was the release of the Hardy Heron the second LTS release of Ubuntu after Dapper Drake.* [image: Ubuntu logo] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ubuntu_Logo.svg> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ubuntu_8.04.png>
*I was wondering what will be the big difference separating Ubuntu 8.04 from Ubuntu 7.10 ??!! For the end user it's not always clear where the difference lies and where it is most important, so I tried to dig more into it. I started with the kernel; Gusty Gibbon [Ubuntu 7.10] had kernel 2.6.22, while Hardy Heron [Ubuntu LTS 8.04] had 2.6.24, I got some nice results :) [1]* *Table 1 - Frequency of kernel releases **Table 2 - Number of individual developers and employers* *Table 3 - Individual kernel contributors **Table 4 - Companies working toward the improvement of the kernel* * * *Figure 2 - Changes per kernel release* *Figure 3 - Changes per hour by kernel release* *Figure 4 - Size per kernel release* *Figure 5 - Rate of change by kernel release* *This lead me to uncover some interesting facts about the Open Source development progress. This is shown in a paper prepared by Amit Deshpande and Dirk Riehle [2], the researchers found that the Open Source projects double annually both in number of code lines and projects. * > *Software development is undergoing a major change away from a > fully closed software process towards a process that incorporates open > source > software in products and services. Just how significant is that change? To > an- > swer this question we need to look at the overall growth of open source as > well > as its growth rate. In this paper, we quantitatively analyze the growth of > more > than 5000 active and popular open source software projects. We show that > the > total amount of source code as well as the total number of open source > projects > is growing at an exponential rate. Previous research showed linear and > quad- > ratic growth in lines of source code of individual open source projects. > Our > work shows that open source is expanding into new domains and applications > at an exponential rate.* > *This research was comprehensive, to indicate the real status of Open Source World * For our analysis, we use the database of the open source analytics firm > Ohloh.net, which has been crawling open source software code repositories > since > 2005 [11]. Our database snapshot contains 5122 active and popular open > source pro- > jects written in 30 different programming languages covering 103 open > source li- > censes. All data is updated on at least a weekly basis. > References: 1. http://www.linux-foundation.org/publications/linuxkerneldevelopment.php 2. paper : http://homepages.uc.edu/%7Edeshpaaa/oss-2008-total-growth-final.pdf -- Ramy Eid Mobile: 0788.256.276 rmyeid.blogspot.com /'_|/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
