Yuan Meng: everyone is responsible for defending Ubuntu

Article Title: Yuan Meng: defending Ubuntu. Everyone is responsible. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

Recently, an article "Meng Wen" attacking the Ubuntu release has been widely circulated on the Internet, with great influence. What is the background? What is the author's intention? Where does this unhealthy trend come from?

In September 19, Greg Kroah-Harman, Novell's Linux kernel development expert, took the lead at the International Linux kernel maintainer conference in an effort to attack the main Ubuntu supporter Canonical and accused Canonical of contributing "very little" to the Linux kernel ", in the past three years, Canonical submitted a total of 100 patches, accounting for 0.1% of the total number of Linux Kernel patches during this period. Therefore, Greg really means that Ubuntu contributes a little to the "Linux ecosystem ". This is a very strange saying, as well as the position and perspective of the problem, and was immediately attacked by people in the industry.

Insiders pointed out: in the past few years, the evolution of Linux kernel mainly involves server support and involves few factors that touch the desktop application (Ubuntu's main direction, canonical has only 130 employees worldwide and is a very small company compared with Novell (4,100) and IBM (0.38 million). Therefore, canonical must have fewer patches for the Linux kernel, which is completely understandable. In recent years, Ubuntu has actually created nearly half of the world's basic Linux Desktop Users. Without a doubt, this is the greatest contribution to the Linux ecosystem. At the same time, Insiders pointed out that Greg is an employee of Novell and everyone knows that Novell is a competitor for Ubuntu to enter the enterprise-level market. Greg's argument is unconvincing.

I am not sure how to deal with this international attack Ubuntu, and it will soon blow to our country. This is an example of "Meng Wen. Fierce, brave, that is, concentrated strength. In this case, "Meng Wen" asserted at the very beginning that "Ubuntu is at the root of the scourge of the release of the open-source community", "newcomers using the Ubuntu series is the most unwise choice ", the reason is that "Ubuntu has changed too many things", "it is not compatible with other releases", and so on. "Meng Wen" even said, "Ubuntu is the modified version of Debian tomato garden ". "Meng Wen" claims that "Ubuntu is proud to be innovative, rashly modifying key code, and extremely irresponsible to users", "great changes between near versions", "users often complain ", and so on. "I hate to eat Ubuntu in one breath. What is the truth? Let's not elaborate on it first (Let me write an article later). Here we want to ask, why is "Meng Wen" so concentrated to attack Ubuntu?

The author of "Meng Wen" not only attacked the Ubuntu release, but directed the attack finger at the main supporter of Ubuntu, Canonical. There must be a factor of interest behind him, it clearly represents the vital interests of a certain interest group. "Meng Wen" said, "Only companies that provide services for Ubuntu (which means Canonical) can make the most money if users often encounter troubles, not only should each user use the service more, but also expand the user base ", so that the subjective motivation of Canonical to support Ubuntu is totally denied, which is totally different from the objective facts.