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In defense of Ubuntu

Posted Aug 20, 2008 3:19 UTC (Wed) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346)
Parent article: In defense of Ubuntu

Yet Ubuntu's contributions most likely exceed those from all of the distributions named here, with the possible (but far from certain) exception of Gentoo.

Although I appreciate the Gentoo mention, I find it hard to believe that any distro contributes more upstream than Red Hat. RH employees work upstream on tons of projects including the kernel, virtualization, various desktop projects and clustering.

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This is unquestionable

Posted Aug 20, 2008 5:10 UTC (Wed) by etrusco (guest, #4227) [Link]

RH is the biggest single commercial contributor to GNU/Linux; only problem is that RH is not
mentioned in that paragraph.

OTOH Canonical open sources all the infrastructure projects of its distro just like RH; it
"just" happens that RH, as a better established company than Canonical, has better established
projects with more visibility and following.

This is unquestionable

Posted Aug 20, 2008 7:18 UTC (Wed) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]

"OTOH Canonical open sources all the infrastructure projects of its distro just like RH; it
"just" happens that RH, as a better established company than Canonical, has better established
projects with more visibility and following."

Umm, What? Where's the code to LaunchPad?

In defense of Ubuntu

Posted Aug 20, 2008 6:04 UTC (Wed) by interalia (subscriber, #26615) [Link]

Although I appreciate the Gentoo mention, I find it hard to believe that any distro contributes more upstream than Red Hat.

I think that sentence is comparing Ubuntu only to the distros mentioned in that paragraph:

The developers who castigate Ubuntu are uniformly silent about the number of kernel patches coming from the Mandriva camp. They have nothing to say about how much Xandros gives back to Debian. Nobody totals up contributions from Gentoo. There are no complaints about Slackware's presence in the community. Arch Linux developers do not hear that they are not doing enough. There are no high-profile articles on how rPath is taking advantage of free software developers.

In defense of Ubuntu

Posted Aug 20, 2008 6:12 UTC (Wed) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link]

I think that sentence is comparing Ubuntu only to the distros mentioned in that paragraph

Ah, I was reading "here" as the entire article when he said, "all of the distributions named here." I don't really think of paragraphs as standalone units in that respect. Read that way, I agree more with it.