Linux Developers Fix Bugs Faster Than Apple and Google: Report

A recent report from Google’s Project Zero suggests that Linux developers fixed bugs faster than anyone. For starters, Project Zero contains a team of Google’s security analysts and is used to find zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source projects.

Linux Devs are faster than Apple & Google

The stats are from January 2019 to December 2021. Linux programmers fixed 24 bugs in 25 days, 66% faster than Apple. What’s surprising is that, in 2019, the average speed of Linux devs patching issues was 32 days and has now improved by a significant margin.

Now, it should be noted that Apple’s devs had more bugs to fix. However, the average days to fix is much higher at 69 days. Google fixed a total of 53 out of 56 bugs with the second-lowest average days to fix stats of 44. Mozilla follows with 46, with Microsoft being the last at 83 days.