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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Friday 19 September 2008 10:48 : \____
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>>> ml2mst wrote:
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>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Friday 19 September 2008 05:53 : \____
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>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>>>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Thursday 18 September 2008 22:49 : \____
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>>>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> Matt Zimmerman, CTO of Canonical, is unhappy with Greg
>>>>>>>>> Kroah-Hartman, one of
>>>>>>>>> | the Linux kernel maintainers, because of Kroah-Hartman's keynote
>>>>>>>>> | at the Linux Plumbers Conference. The keynote, described
>>>>>>>>> | elsewhere as a reworking a June presentation, makes a number of
>>>>>>>>> | claims about Canonical's activity in the community, presenting
>>>>>>>>> | various tables which showed Canonical not making many upstream
>>>>>>>>> | patches and concluding "Canonical doesn't give back to the
>>>>>>>>> | community".
>>>>>>>>> `
>>>>>>>> Well, they are not, compared to others
>>>>>>>> Novell contributed more than 7000 patches
>>>>>>>> Red Hat more than 11000
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well, and Ubuntu? A whopping 100
>>>>>>> They are not kernel focused. They sell desktops more than servers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Irrelevant
>>>>>
>>>>> That may be so. It's being discussed in some other sites at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> Even if they haven't contributed much to the kernel, they have
>>>> contributed quite a lot to overall usability and acceptance of
>>>> GNU/Linux.
>>>
>>> That may well be so.
>>> But so have others. SuSE for example does a lot for KDE and the video
>>> drivers for X. SuSE also did most of the port to AMD64 architecture.
>>>
>>>> Beside that, the well organized LoCo teams are very friendly and helpful
>>>> to new users.
>>>>
>>>> Me thinks Ubuntu deserves credit for that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> They certainly do. Nonetheless some critic is warranted
>>
>> I've found some really nice explanation of this with some pictures:
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>>
>
http://dustinkirkland.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/whats-behind-gregkhs-latest-rant/
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>
> Ah yes. That explains why Novell/SuSE is doing more than 70 times the number
> of patches. Or Red Hat more than 100 times the patches.
>
> It is all a big Novell/MS conspiracy...
>
> Roy, please don't treat me as stupid as DumbFullShit or Hadron Quark
It shows you just the kernel though.
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