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David A. Wheeler notes [9] four possible outcomes of a fork, with examples: The death of the fork. This is by far the most common case. It is easy to declare a fork, but considerable effort to continue independent development and support. A re-merging of the fork (e.g., egcs becoming "blessed" as the new version of GNU Compiler Collection.)
Fork and pull model refers to a software development model mostly used on GitHub, where multiple developers working on an open, shared project make their own contributions by sharing a main repository and pushing changes after granted pull request by integrator users.
Most Linux distributions are descended from other distributions, most being traceable back to Debian, Red Hat or Softlanding Linux System (see image right). Since most of the content of a distribution is free and open source software, ideas and software interchange freely as is useful to the individual distribution.
In 2012, the Gentoo Linux project created a fork of udev in order to avoid dependency on the systemd architecture. The resulting fork is called eudev and it makes udev functionality available without systemd. [122] A stated goal of the project is to keep eudev independent of any Linux distribution or init system. [123]
μClinux is a variation of the Linux kernel, previously maintained as a fork, that targets microcontrollers without a memory management unit (MMU). [1] It was integrated into the mainline kernel as of 2.5.46; [ 2 ] the project continues to develop patches and tools for microcontrollers.
Project GitHub Home: GitHub Root GitHub Wiki: Forced move from Fedorahosted.org TRAC from late 2016 [1] [2] [3] and as of February 2017 may have some link discrepancies remaining Official Project Home: Domain Registered by Red Hat but not updated since 2015 (accessed January 2017) User Documentation: User Documentation FAQ: Upstream FAQ
Gitea (/ ɡ ɪ ˈ t iː / [3]) is a forge software package for hosting software development version control using Git as well as other collaborative features like bug tracking, code review, continuous integration, kanban boards, tickets, and wikis.
LibreWolf was initially released for Linux operating systems on March 7, 2020. [5] The goal of the LibreWolf project was to create a more privacy-focused version of Firefox. [ 6 ] A community-maintained version for Windows was released a year later, with a macOS port released soon after.