alt Hacker NewsYou can check company names too ! It's interesting to see that by default, the graph shows google,apple. But adding meta, and IBM really changes the plot.
Meta went from 2K to 10K+ from 2018 to 2025. While IBM seems to have stopped contributing in 2008. Since they the merging with RedHat, I would have expected to see them increase again but none of RedHat / IBM seems to have increase. https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#redhat,oracle... Not sure if their name appearing means that they are contributing tho.
Really cool project,
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LWN publish better stats for every kernel release - the most recent (for 6.15) can be found at https://lwn.net/Articles/1022414/
So RedHat were the third largest employer by number of changesets (after Intel and Google), IBM were 15th - but, by number of lines changed, they were 5th and 4th respectively.
It's talking about occurrences of the word, not contributions. That's a really lousy way to measure corporate contributions.
IBM is contributing a lot. LWN publishes development statistics after each kernel release: https://lwn.net/Articles/1022414/. IBM was 5th in terms of lines changed, 17th in terms of changesets, 20th in terms of signed-of-by counts. That's alongside the contributions by Red Hat which was higher in all but lines-changed terms.
> Meta went from 2K to 10K+ from 2018 to 2025
Facebook rebranded to Meta in October 2021
But why have Apple contributions skyrocketed? I have never heard of Apple using Linux in anything.
Meta is not just a company name. Look at how it's used:
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atorvalds%2Flinux%20meta&t...