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RE: Like...
by leech on Fri 20th Apr 2012 23:00 UTC in reply to "Like..."
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Like, I don't know, packaging, testing, user-space code, support... Provide support and polish in the only area everyone else ignores and isn't really lucrative, the desktop.

They've been operating on loss for years, giving everything back to the Linux community. And now they are compared to MS, that made large commits of self-serving low quality code.

And quantity doesn't mean anything. A fix, to the Linux kernel may take 50 lines of code and one commit, but dozens of hours to develop and test. Is it the same as a crappy driver code dump?

Call me crazy, but all the packaging, testing, infrastructure was already there with Debian. Really the only thing that Ubuntu brought to the table over Debian is scheduled releases, and releases based on the latest gnome, which I guess would be where the 'testing and packaging' would come from. Though honestly I think that's where they should have stayed. A Fresher Debian. Kept more compatible to Debian, and just stayed with whatever direction Debian went. That was the original goal of Ubuntu, and why I used it during the first few releases, but then they would break so bad, I'd just go back to proper Debian.

They don't even 'support' as many packages as Debian does.

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