On Sunday 28 Sep 2008 4:01:20 pm Aanjhan R wrote:
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya <arnieswap@xxxxxxxxx>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.
