Re: Linux on the desktop - it's come a long way, but is it there yet?

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 11:05 -0400, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: 
> Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> > 
> > Ubuntu is unusual in other ways too. 
> > 
> > http://cycle-gap.blogspot.com/2008/07/linux-kernel-development-stats-from.html
> > 
> > Note the part towards the end where Greg KH mentions Canonical's 
> > contributions to the kernel. 
> 
> I'd have to see whether Canonical is contributing to other open-source 
> projects before reaching the conclusion that Greg reaches. It's possible 
> that they are more active in non-kernel projects. Kernel development 
> isn't the only way to participate in Linux. It's not really surprising 
> that a distribution where the major focus is UI polish and smoothness 
> would not be heavily focused on kernel work. 
> 
> It's also possible that they send their contributions upstream to Debian 
> rather than directly to the kernel developers, thus their work is 
> attributed to Debian developers rather than to Canonical. 
> 
> All that said, it's possible that Canonical really isn't being a good 
> community player. But I think that the jury is still out.