"For 2008 media will create Red Hat-Ubuntu war"
Jonathan Roberts
jonathan.roberts.uk at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 3 14:13:58 UTC 2008
Thanks Rahul, it all looks like it's interesting and should be useful at
some point in the future :) Anybody got any ideas on how we can make use
of this info? Maybe in the proposed Press Kit and the history section
even?!
Best wishes,
Jon
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions and in the references.
> People have done various studies on which vendors contribute how much to
> the Linux kernel in particular and Red Hat in usually by a large margin
> the leading contributor. That would probably be the same for GTK and
> GNOME though I don't know of anyone doing any formal analysis. Then
> there are other key pieces like Glibc, GCC and on more desktop neutral
> stuff like HAL, DBus, Cairo, NetworkManager etc.
>
> From the volunteer community, there are a good number of people who
> contribute to various upstream projects. A few examples,
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BryanSullivan (Mercurial upstream. Refer
> http://lwn.net/Articles/153990/ for a interesting detail).
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HansdeGoede
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KevinKofler
>
> I am pretty sure there are several dozen more contributors such as these.
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