Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Mon 14th Jul 2008 23:22 UTC
"Linux kernel hacker Greg Kroah Hartman's June 5, 2008 talk at Google titled "The Linux Kernel" was chock-full of details about kernel development". This is a collection of some statistics about the Linux kernel development from that talk. Juicy Bit:"Supports more processors and devices than any other OS in history".
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That the kernel does not concentrate on desktop issues is sort of a myth. There are tons of desktop specific work happening. Take a look at the latest release were webcam drivers are getting merged as just one item. Ubuntu is ignoring this process to a large extend and patching their kernel pretty heavily.
http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/127218.html
I doubt they are fairing much better in terms of user space patches including major projects like GNOME.
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2007-07-13
position. GKH was very emphatic that 'Canonical does not give back to the community'.
Possibly because Canonical are more concerned with user-space issues than kernel-space ones? Many of the bigger kernel changes seem to be to get it working well on big-iron or embedded systems, which is not the main space where Canonical have operated (although that may be changing).