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Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

Bugsnag Linux APISymbol files for shared object (.so) files77.8 Red5 Core SDKThe Red5 Core SDK is a native client library for building real-time streaming applications on Linux, Window...67.5

Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Analog Devices Libiio APIThe libiio library provides a cross-platform C API for interfacing with Linux Industrial I/O (IIO) devices ...40.6 GitKraken Linux APIThe Linux API from GitKraken — 1 operation(s) for linux.39.5

Thin 2 Limited public surface area

CIP SLTS KernelThe CIP Kernel is a Super Long-Term Support (SLTS) Linux kernel branch maintained for ten or more years, pr...37.8 USTC Open Source Software MirrorThe USTC Open Source Software Mirror, operated by the campus Linux User Group (LUG @ USTC), is one of the l...28.6

Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented

Runcrunc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI (Open Container Initia...25.5 RISC-V OpenSBIOpenSBI is the official open-source implementation of the RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI) specific...21.5 CNI Reference PluginsA collection of reference and example networking plugins maintained by the containernetworking team that im...19.9 gVisorgVisor is an open-source application kernel written in Go that provides an additional layer of isolation be...14.6

Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

SUSE Manager APIJSON-based "A-REST" API for SUSE Manager (SUMA), used to manage systems, channels, configuration, errata, a...9.9

Companies reaching this through an API (7)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Linux” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Analog Devices Bugsnag Container Network Interface (CNI) GitKraken Red5 RISC-V International University of Science and Technology of China

Score breakdown

Frequency

43.6

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

0.7

spread across providers

Quality lift

24.4

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

6.8

strength of nearest seed neighbor

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