Samsung joins the Linux Foundation

Samsung joins the Linux Foundation

 Samsung contributed $ 500 thousand dollars


Foundation announced Linux today join the company "Samsung" them as a member Platini, to join other companies such as Intel, Oracle, and "IBM" and other companies that contribute to the development of a project to Linux, where the company has contributed $ 500 thousand dollars. Samsung will work to contribute to the development of the Linux kernel, especially as it is used in its Android system is based mainly on the Linux kernel open source.

Said Jim Zimln Executive Director of the Linux Foundation that Samsung is committed to development and investment in Linux, and join the company to the Foundation will enhance the success of Samsung, as well as speed in the development of a Linux system, and added that Samsung is working on the development of the Android system in order to produce a system fast , stable and cheap.

It is worth mentioning that the first nucleus of a Linux system had been issued in 1991, at the hands of the founder of Project Linus Torvalds, and exported many distributions based on the Linux kernel of the most famous "Red Hat" and "Ubuntu", in addition to the Android system for mobile phones and computers tablet based on Linux kernel which currently dominates about 56% of the smartphone market share.