On Tuesday 30 Sep 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > [snip] > Frankly, I do not buy the statement that Ubuntu can't do what > Fedora does. I think perhaps it is to Ubuntu's competitive advantage > to be the only distro with the fixes they create?
Actually any distribution that doesn't feed patches back upstream (I'm not singling out Ubuntu here) is harming itself in the long run. If distribution FOO patches a specific bug in, say, Xorg but doesn't pass the patches back upstream, then eventually that bug is going to get fixed in base Xorg from somewhere else, in a different way. After a while FOO maintainers are going to find that their version of Xorg is widely divergent from the base Xorg, and each time they bring in a new package from upstream they're going to spend a few days hacking it to get it in sync with their version. My guess is that FOO would end up a bit like Winduhs -- poor quality shredded code all over the place, and users will get disgusted and walk away in any case. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
