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The Ubuntu Advantage? Canonical Takes On Red Hat (Linux Magazine)

The Ubuntu Advantage? Canonical Takes On Red Hat (Linux Magazine)

Posted Jun 10, 2010 23:07 UTC (Thu) by mmcgrath (subscriber, #44906)
In reply to: The Ubuntu Advantage? Canonical Takes On Red Hat (Linux Magazine) by ESRI
Parent article: The Ubuntu Advantage? Canonical Takes On Red Hat (Linux Magazine)

> a much larger engineering pool capable of addressing distro bugs and issues without relying on "upstream" for everything.

You'll find that many of those engineers working for Red Hat are upstream or at least part of upstream for several core Linux tools. This is a great advantage since it means that changes they make have a much higher likelihood of making it into the upstream repo instead of as a maintained fork at the distro level.


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