Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore [LWN.net]

Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore

Posted Oct 20, 2010 21:13 UTC (Wed) by sgros (guest, #36440)
In reply to: Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore by vonbrand
Parent article: Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore

This is interesting. You imply that Fedora uses Debian as its primary upstream, or as one of its upstreams?

Next interesting thing, you poked a bit around, got some impression, and made a strong claim from it?

My point is, Fedora's policy is to work with upstream as close as possible. That make the claim of taking the fixes from upstream (even though, how you can "get fixes from upstream" when you _take_ upstream?!)? But how can you claim for Debian without backing it with some concrete numbers?

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Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore

Posted Oct 25, 2010 3:20 UTC (Mon) by vonbrand (guest, #4458) [Link]

No, I'm not saying Debian (specifically) is "the" upstream. It is upstream for some stuff (and in turn Fedora is Debian's upstream for others). Fixes are passed around among distributions, are even upstreamed agressively by some. Sometimes the upstream developers are the packagers for a distribution, there are cases of people packaging for several distributions.

That was what I meant. Sorry if it didn't come out clearly.