Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

[Roy Wright]

Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Joshua D Doll wrote:
>> Saphirus Sage wrote:
>>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>> http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069
>>>>
>>>> I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the
>>>> amount of patches contributed upstream...
>>> Good find, I actually didn't know about E-Trade using Gentoo servers. I
>>> don't think it should be too surprising that Gentoo would contribute
>>> more patches than Conical, as until today, I'd only actually heard of
>>> one of them.
>> This video brought up an interesting question by my friend (an ubuntu
>> user). How would one go about getting Canonical or the ubuntu community
>> to change their practice of not contributing fixes back upstream?
>> Without having to change distributions.
>
> Gentoo involves you more with what goes bad under the bonnet and the average
> Gentoo user is more interested in the workings of their OS to attempt
> troubleshooting it and filing bugs.  Your average Ubuntu user is less likely
> to get their hands dirty, unless they are a dev.  So, essentially we are
> talking about different user profiles here.  To answer your friend's
> hypothetical question - he would either have to change your average Ubuntu's
> user technical aptitude, or change the user.  Either attempt may mean the end
> of Ubuntu as we know it.

The ubuntus are targeted at disgruntled windows users while gentoo is 
targeted at unix users.  The former are used to complaining and getting 
no response while the later know it's their responsibility to help make 
it better...

Have fun,
Roy