Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th May 2008 18:40 UTC
GNU, GPL, Open Source Back in April 2008, Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth pitched the idea of major open source projects synchronising their release cycles on a 6 month period. Projects like gcc, the Linux kernel, GNOME, KDE, as well as the distributions, would work out an acceptable release schedule. It would allow for easier collaboration between the various projects, and hardware vendors would be better able to support Linux since all major distributions would ship with the same kernel version.
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red hat and novell don't wait
by JoeBuck on Mon 19th May 2008 20:00 UTC
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There are tons of people from Red Hat and Novell working on the kernel, Gnome, KDE, the compiler tool chain, and much else. Ubuntu/Canonical is getting big enough that they could manage to do more.