On 03.09.2007 07:04, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 9/2/07, Douglas McClendon
<dmc.fedora(a)filteredperception.org> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On 9/2/07, Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora(a)filteredperception.org> wrote:
[...]
>>> Yes, I know redhat has learned well from microsoft, that the way to be
>>> successful is to let others do the expensive trailblazing, and then only
>>> copy the trails that led to success, rather than those that led to
>>> failure.
>> Feel free to ask some kernel maintainer how much Canonical contributes
>> to the kernel.
> And what percentage of lines of code in fedora is the kernel?
> kernel != distro.
I'm glad you point that out. Seems like things Fedora do are more
globally useful than what Ubuntu does.
+1
And that's at least *afaics* not only true for Kernel-Space, but for
other areas as well.
Since, for example,
advancements to the kernel help everyone, advancements to the Ubuntu
distro help mostly Ubuntu.
Agreed as well. But I think we in Fedora-Land should put "advancements
to the Fedora distro" *a bit higher* on our todo-List as well, as
especially those things are what make a distro cool and "nice to use"
(and thus influence the decision what distro to use).
Faster system-start comes to my mind (which in parts is globally useful
as well), support for encrypted filesystems in the installer, real
"minimal"-installs, avoiding unnecessary dependencies/bloat , avoiding
broken deps in the repo, Partition resizing in the installer and lots of
(often small) similar things.
CU
knurd