I'd say that our key areas in heavy development are:
* kernel
- raid (Ingo)
- vm (Igno, Ben, sct)
- filesystem work (sct)
- VFS (Al Viro)
- sparc (Jakub Jelinek and Dave Miller)
- networking (Dave Miller, Ingo)
- everything under the sun (Alan Cox. :)
- SCSI (aic7xxx), processor optimizations (Doug Ledford)
- Linux Virtual Server (Wennsong Zhang)
* gcc
- the GCC team - everything from new targets to new backends for the
Pentium
* g++
- probably the most standards compliant C++ compiler around
* binutils
- more of the same
* glibc
- internationalization (GNU gettext) Ulrich Drepper
- everything else under the sun (Ulrich)
(important to note that a lot of Ulrich's work is done on his own
time. Your work is essential, thanks Ulrich!
* GTK+
- Owen Taylor and Tim Janik, the lead maintainers - full time work
on GTK+
- Pango - Unicode bidirectional text handling (Owen Taylor)
- GTK+-1.4 (The LABS team - Owen, Jonhathan, Havoc, Elliot)
* GNOME
- General hacking on the stuff other people don't like to finish
* CORBA
- ORBit - CORBA ORB in C, with C++, perl, python, tcl, eiffel, and
ada bindings (Elliot Lee)
* Java
- gcj - a compiler front end that converts programs written in the
Java language to native machine code, part of the gcc project
You can see, there are lots of projects that we're involved in, but
much of it is quite low level so it's often overlooked. As far as
XFree86, we're on the core team. Jakub and Dave Miller do the Sun
platform support for XFree86. We're working hard to make sure that
our X changes are getting merged upstream.
If ALSA were to be adopted by the kernel, we would probably be
contributing some sound drivers to them. As we're still using OSS,
the maestro driver was written for OSS. Alan does lots of sound
driver hacking, as most of you know.
Riser doesn't like us. We're working on ext3. All the details of
that should be hashed out on linux-kernel - there isn't anything more
to add here.
This is by no means a complete list. Just stuff I thought off of the
top of my head. Any mistakes are my own.
Cheers,
Matt
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:27:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a query regarding redhats involvement with the open source
> community. I ask as there has been quite a bit of RH bashing on
> our local LUG mailing list and I thought, why not ask what RH
> is doing to further the cause of linux development.
> eg What devel projects is RH involved with
> Is there any devel co-operation with XFree, ALSA ,
> ReiserFS and other projects?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Kevin
>
>
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