Yes, we had util-linux before (and many thanks to Adrian Bunk and Andries E. Brouwer), but I believe that with git and close collaboration between Linux distributions and Linux kernel community it better now :-)
- ~11000 commits
- ~460 unique contributors
- ~630 regression tests
- ~100 utils, 5 shared libs with public API
- ~16 major releases (from v2.13 to v2.29)
- ~26 translated languages
- ~10000 e-mails on mailing list
- ported to GNU Hurd, FreeBSD and XOS
- used by all mainstream Linux distros (as well as by Systemd haters ;-)
- modern autotools based build system
- merges from another projects
- libblkid, libuuid and fsck from e2fsprogs
- sulogin, last, utmpdump and mounpoint from sysvinit
- su from coreutils
- many new utils (lsblk, findmnt, wipefs, rtcwake, unshare, nsenter, prlimit, blkdiscard, flock, fstrim, ipcmk, ldattach, lscpu, lsipc, lslocks, lslogins, resizepart, setarch, setpriv, switch_root, swaplabel)
- many rewrites (libblkid probing code, mount, fdisks, etc.)
- new shared libraries
- libmount
- libfdisk
- libsmartcols
...the first original announce: https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/12
... gource video with all the ten years https://youtu.be/YcG6hHGD-78 :-)
Thanks to all contributors!
