Swapnil Bhartiya 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
Please suggest.
If you have gone through the other posts and articles related to this as
well, you would have understood the bug picture and other side of the
story. For the record, Greg himself works for Novell and has been
involved in Linux Kernel team as a contributor to Drivers for several
years. Also the article is more a targeted knife against Canonical, who
is the sponsor behind Ubuntu. The general thought which has grown from
his talk was that he considered only the Linux Kernel as contribution to
Linux and never considered contribution to other components to a working
GNU/Linux distribution like the Desktop Environment such as GNOME/KDE to
be a contribution towards GNU/Linux. Hence his notion of contribution
itself was pretty short focused.
The points made against were with number of patches submitted by Ubuntu
Kernel Team towards the Upstream Linus' Team. But, Ubuntu is more about
giving an user friendly Desktop GNU/linux Operating System and hence a
major part of its work has gone into this area than the Kernel, which is
already provided by the very talented men (and women) lead by Linus.
Ubuntu has indeed stepped up the momentum of Desktop Linux with the
release of Dapper Drake almost 2 years ago. It's not nice to forget the
contribution of Ubuntu by taking Desktop Linux to the homes of thousands
and thousands, with the fact that its Kernel contribution has been very
minimal.
On the other side, Ubuntu has almost grown out to be a community run
project, with Canonical most sponsoring the resources required by the
community to manage the project. One main valid point available against
Ubuntu and accepted by the Ubuntu community as well will be the
non-Openness of Launchpad. But that day is not long away as Mark himself
has hinted at various instances that Launchpad will soon be made Free
and Open Source too. With time, we should see more people in the Ubuntu
community turning up as contributors to Linux Kernel too. With every
release, Ubuntu is becoming better and striving to solve bug #1.
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With Regards,
Parthan "technofreak"
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