Friday, January 6, 2017

10 years with util-linux project!

I can't believe that it's already 10 years we have active community around basic Linux utils.

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!


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