I know, but do they? Has big tech contributed to the code base significantly for coreutils specifically? sed and awk or ls has been the same as long as I remember, utf8 support has been added, but I doubt apple or google was behind that.

Do large tech companies contribute a lot to the GPL coreutils?

Interesting, thank you. I started reading through and realized there are no newer interviews than 8 years ago. And two of the three most recent interviews are of Suse employees. This kind of reinforces my feeling to be honest.

OpenSuse is such a mystery to me. In Debian, I know it’s community run and there’s a thousand developers all over the world and they vote and discuss everything. Ubuntu is corporate and that’s easy to understand too. But OpenSuse? They say it’s a community distro, but my (uneducated) feeling is that the community is like four Suse employees. Is there actually a community of developers? What is OpenSuse? If someone knows I’d like to know what it’s like from the inside.

I have a cycle that goes like this:

1. I just want a system that works. (Fedora)
2. The UNIX philosophy is cool. (OpenBSD)

Repeat every 6 months or so. I’m never happy with my current system.