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Open source development list

Red Hat develops and helps foster the development of many free and open source projects, some of which go on to become standard technology across the industry. The following list names some of the projects Red Hat is involved in. If you know of a project that is not on this list, please contact our community relations manager to have it added.

The list is broken into 8 areas of involvement:

• GNOME and the Free Desktop
• The Core Operating System
• Key Open Source Development Tools
• Administration Frameworks
• System Clustering
• Service Management
• Server Applications
• Emerging Technologies

GNOME and the Free Desktop

NetworkManager: writers/maintainers
pango: writers/maintainers
metacity: writers/maintainers
gconf: writers/maintainers
gnome-keyring: writers/maintainers
evince: writers/maintainers
cairo: writers/maintainers
dbus: writers/maintainers
hal: writers/maintainers
vte: writers
glib, gtk+: maintainers
gnome-session: maintainers
nautilus: co-maintainers
gnome-panel: co-maintainers
gnome control-center: co-maintainers
cdparanoia: major contributors

The Core Operating System

LVM2, md: writers/maintainers
SELinux Targeted policy: writers/maintainers
ext3: writers/maintainers
vfs: writers/maintainers
NPTL: writers/maintainers
Tux: writers/maintainers
several SATA drivers: writers/maintainers
several network drivers: writers/maintainers
kernel 2.6 virtual memory manager: writers/maintainers
kernel 2.6 CPU scheduler: writers/maintainers
kernel 2.6 audit subsystem: writers/maintainers
SELinux User space tools: maintainers
IPsec: co-maintainers, writers
crypto: co-maintainers, writers
netdump and netconsole: co-maintainers
SELinux kernel: major contributors, co-maintainers
Linux Security Modules: major contributors, maintainers
Kernel Networking Stack: major contributors, maintainers
Netfilter: major contributors
kernel 2.6, other: major contributors

Key Open Source Development Tools

elfutils: writers/maintainers
libxml2 / libxslt: writers/maintainers
gamin: writers/maintainers
glibc: major contributors
gcc and gcj: major contributors
binutils: major contributions
libuser: co-maintainers

Administration Frameworks

RPM: writers/maintainers
up2date: writers/maintainers
anaconda: writers/maintainers
firstboot: writers/maintainers
system-config-tools: writers/maintainers

System Clustering

gfs: writers/maintainers
gfs2: writers/maintainers
dlm: writers/maintainers
gulm: writers/maintainers
cman: writers/maintainers
rgmanager: writers/maintainers
ccs: writers/maintainers
fence: writers/maintainers
system-config-cluster: writers/maintainers
gnbd: writers/maintainers
dmraid: writers/maintainers
bddraid: writers/maintainers
csnap: writers/maintainers
JFFS2: writers/maintainers

Service Management

mkinitrd: writers/maintainers
ntsysv: writers/maintainers
rhpl: writers/maintainers
kudzu: writers/maintainers
booty: major contributors
chkconfig: major contributors
initscripts: major contributors
MAKEDEV: major contributors
mkbootdisk: major contributors
rootfiles: major contributors
sysreport: major contributors
Server Applications

Apache HTTP Server/Portable Runtime: major contributors
PostgreSQL: major contributors
Fedora Directory Server: writers/maintainers

Emerging Technologies

SystemTap: major contributors
OProfile: major contributors