Aanjhan R wrote:
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here is the article of Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the USB and other
subsystems in the Linux kernel mentioning Canonical contribution to be 100
patches viz a viz 230 by Mandriva and only 270 by Gentoo. Remember Ubuntu is
quite young compared to Mandriva, Gentoo.
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html
Doesn't this article itself simply put things straight. Ubuntu has
been around for 4 years *only* now as compared to the oldies like
Gentoo and Debian or for that matter RH. And already the upstream
kernel contributions is increasing and am sure will soon catch up with
the other distros. Also, one must understand lots of kernel devels
work in Redhat and Novell. for. E.g Alan Cox was with RH and Greg
himself works for Novell. So one can expect many "commits" from these
folks.
The presentation above compare the distros against their upstream
contributions for the period of last years and not for the lifetime of
the company or project which would show a different set of metrics. Also
the presentation isn't limited to just the kernel but the "core"
components or what is called as Linux plumbing which includes GCC, Xorg
etc. The video was more interesting to me.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3385088017824733336
Rahul
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