I just learnt from a friend of mine that I should stop using Ubuntu as Canonical is not
contributing to the development of GNU/Linux systems as compared to other players. He also
suggested that since most of its stuff, or nothing, is upstream so we cant trust it. Also
his argument was, being run by one man, who may tomorrow change his mind and stop support
to Ubuntu, then what?
So, I am bringing this issue to the lista and have people's opinion as to how much
Canonical has contributed and how wise is the decision to use Ubuntu?
Here is the article of Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the USB and other subsystems in
the Linux kernel mentioning Canonical contribution to be 100 patches viz a viz 230 by
Mandriva and only 270 by Gentoo. Remember Ubuntu is quite young compared to Mandriva,
Gentoo.
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html
Please suggest.
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