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Novell Rises to Second Highest Linux Contributor

Posted by Zonk on from the putting-yourself-out-there dept.

eldavojohn writes "Which companies contribute the most to the Linux kernel? Well, The Linux Foundation released their results and Novell's contributions have gone up 250% (from 3.6% of all contributions to 14.4% of all contributions) to put them at #2 behind Red Hat. This chart also illustrates just how widely Linux is modified by the community and not just a handful of developers/companies. You can find more coverage on blogs and the original report."

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  1. Re:all because of SuSE ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    there was an effort to make it compile with the Intel compiler (which, performance-wise, it much superior to GCC)

    I don't think the Intel compiler is superior to GCC at all. We tested it a while back and it was absolutely abysmal at vector processing on anything other than an Intel processor. Heard rumours it was de-tuned on purpose to shaft AMD. Stick with GCC unless you know for sure that the target has an Intel CPU.