There are more indications this month of the continuing growth of Linux. A new report from the Linux Foundation reports that roughly 3,700 developers from more than 200 companies have contributed to the kernel since 2005. The top 10 coders have contributed nearly 15% of the total submissions and the top 30 coders nearly 30 percent. Al Viro logged a whopping 1,571 submissions to the kernel, the most of any developer.

Breaking down the numbers further, 13.9% of developers were determined to be working on their own time, 12.9% of developers affiliation was 'unknown', and the remainder were split up among a large number of companies, including Red Hat at 11.2%.

Open IT World has a good overview of the report.

Mobile development on Linux appears to be growing rapidly as well. More on that tomorrow.

¶ 5:49 PM