On Sunday 28 Sep 2008 4:01:20 pm 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. > > Also quite a lot of Ubuntu devels are also Debian Developers and there > "could" me a few commits that is a part of the patch sent from Debian. > I am not still sure about the numbers and quite surprised with the > Gentoo figure. > > Well, I guess Canonical is on the right path. But one argument I agree > completely is Canonical is being run by Mark Shuttleworth, but the > better side of it is it has got a big community now and with its ever > increasing User base, there is no necessity to fear the worse. > > And LP will be Open Source in a year from now with the Road map > already in place. > http://popey.com/Launchpad_to_go_Open_Source_by_next_OSCon > > To conclude, I think the views will change in a couple of years from > now as Ubuntu matures (not that it is immature now) and they are a > couple of years older than what they are today.
I have a confession to make: I have shamelessly used linux since 1995 and have never contributed a patch to the kernel. Even worse, I dont know C. So, boycott me. Hate me. Kick me. Ban me. But whatever you do - I will continue to use linux. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
