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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

Posted Sep 21, 2008 9:40 UTC (Sun) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613)
In reply to: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem by tzafrir
Parent article: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

You are missing one possibility (which is the most common one in my limited
experience).

5) Ubuntu users report bugs, the ubuntu developers wait for upstream to
solve them, and then backport the fixes to the ubuntu packages.

In this senario, bugs are reported and fixed, but few patches goes from
ubuntu to upstream.


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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

Posted Sep 22, 2008 4:00 UTC (Mon) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

That would just mean that they haven't got the manpower to give support to a "enterprise" distribution... You need engineers that know intimately what is going on upstream (i.e., are inmersed in its development) if you want to be able to fix problems in a reasonable timeframe (least of all, in the time your support contract promises).

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