Red Hat contributions to Free and Open Source software
Red Hat has contributed extensively to Free and Open Source software. A partial list of software that Red Hat has contributed towards include the following:
Contents:
Open Sourcing
- Sistina GFS file system, LVM2 and associated clustering tools - 31 million dollars
- Netscape directory server open sourced as Fedora/Red Hat Directory Server - Around 25 million dollars
Source: http://www.redhat.com/about/companyprofile/history/
GNOME and the Free Desktop
http://gnome.org infrastructure, hosting and bandwidth
pango: originally written and maintained
glib, gtk+: most primary maintainers and developer work
metacity: written and maintained
nautilus: co-maintained
gnome-panel: co-maintained
gnome-session: maintained
vte: written
cairo: written (employee) and maintained
gconf: written and maintained
dbus: written (employee) and maintained
hal: written (employee) and maintained
gnome-keyring: written and maintained
gnome control-center: co-maintained
evince: written and maintained
NetworkManager: written and maintained
vino: written and maintained
gnome-menus: written and maintained
sabayon: written and maintained
dogtail - UI automation and testing framework
Xorg: major contributions and maintenance
The Core Operating System
LVM2, md
Autofs - maintained
SELinux - Maintains User space tools, Targeted policy, MCS
Kernel 2.6 Audit subsystem - written and maintained
ipsec
crypto
ext3 - Written and maintained
vfs- Written and maintained
usb - patches
Kernel 2.6 Virtual Memory manager - Written and maintained
kernel 2.6 CPU scheduler - Written and maintained
netdump and netconsole
NPTL - Written and maintained
Tux - Written and maintained
several SATA drivers
Several network drivers
Network stack
Key Open Source Development Tools
glibc - Major contributions. Maintained.
gcc and gcj - Major contributions
binutils -
elfutils - Written and maintained
libuser
"libxml2 and libxslt" development - Written and maintained
gamin - FAM replacement library done within Fedora - Written and maintained
Administration Frameworks
RPM - Written and maintained
up2date - Written and maintained
anaconda - Written and maintained
firstboot - Written and maintained
system-config-tools - Written and maintained
System Clustering
gfs - Written (Sistina) and maintained
gfs2 - Written and maintained
dlm - Written and maintained
gulm - Written and maintained
cman - Written and maintained
rgmanager - Written and maintained
ccs - Written and maintained
fence - Written and maintained
system-config-cluster - Written and maintained
gnbd - Written and maintained
dmraid - Written and maintained
bddraid - Written and maintained
csnap - Written and maintained
JFFS2
For more information see http://sources.redhat.com/cluster
Service Management
booty
chkconfig
initscripts
kudzu - Written and maintained
MAKEDEV
mkbootdisk
mkinitrd
ntsysv - Written and maintained
rhpl - Written and maintained
rootfiles
sysreport
Emerging Technologies
System Tap project
Supporting Xen virtualization
SELinux MCS
libvirt interface for virtualization - Written and maintained