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GregKroah-Harman was finally overwhelmed. In his recent LinuxPlumbersConference2008 keynote speech, he bluntly accused Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu community, of making minor contributions to the Linux community, especially in terms of kernel. In his speech, he pointed out that the Ubuntu community has contributed very little to the kernel. In the past five years, only about 100 Kernel patches have been submitted. At the same time, L

Greg Kroah-Harman was finally overwhelmed. In his recent Linux Plumbers Conference 2008 keynote speech, he bluntly accused Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu community, of making minor contributions to the Linux community, especially in terms of the kernel.

In his speech, he pointed out that the Ubuntu community has contributed very little to the kernel. In the past five years, only about 100 Kernel patches have been submitted. At the same time, the Linux kernel team received more than 0.1 million kernel patch submissions, and Ubuntu contributed only 0.1%. It lags far behind Red Hat and Novell, two other Linux release vendors, which separate the first two contributed by the Linux kernel.

In this regard, the Ubuntu community Operation Company Canonical was unable to sit down, Ubuntu CEO Matt Zimmerman stood up. He believes that Greg Kroah-Harman's remarks are really disgusting and his statistical methods are unscientific. In addition, Ubuntu does not say they are doing better in the kernel than Red hat and Novell.

The Ubuntu kernel is mostly composed of the source code of the original Linux kernel. Zimmerman also mentioned the concept of the "Linux ecosystem" defined by Kroah-Harman. He believes that the latter definition is really strange. The "Linux ecosystem" defined by Kroah-Harman includes GCC, binutils, X.org, and Glibc, but ignores the cognition of common Linux users, because common users have always been accustomed to believing that, for example, GNOME and KDE In the desktop environment, desktop and server applications, and so on, should all be part of Linux.

In addition, Zimmerman also pointed out that Kroah-Harman and Novell had a direct connection, while Novell was one of the rivals of Ubuntu. CEO of Ubuntu also pointed out that he should discuss the matter in the keynote speech of the Meeting and consider all the necessary factors to seek justice for Ubuntu's contribution.

Greg Kroah-Harman: one of the main maintainers of the Linux kernel, which is responsible for driver maintenance for USB, PCI, I2C, and other devices in the Linux architecture. He currently works for Novell. Author of the third edition of the classic Linux Device Drivers.

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A few months ago I gave a talk at Google about the Linux kerneldevelopment process. during that talk, someone asked me aboutCanonical's kernel contributions as they did not show up on the listthat I was showing. I offhandedly remarked that they did not show up as they had onlycontributed 5-6 patches in the past few years. now this comment didn 'tgo over very well with the Ubuntu developers, and they called me out onit as they felt it was wrong. they were right, I was wrong, so here is my public apology.

In the past 3 years, from the 2.6.15 kernel to 2.6.27-rc6, Canonicalhas had 100 patches in the Linux kernel. I appologize about my previous statement and wocould like the world toknow the correct number here. but as the Canonical employees seemed so eager for me to get the numbercorrect, let's look a bit closer at it. what does 100 patches reallymean?

From the 2.6.15 kernel release to the present, there have been 99324 patches made to the Linux kernel.