Linked by David Adams on Mon 29th Sep 2008 02:58 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva has done quite a lot of work on optimizing boot speed for its latest release, Mandriva Linux 2009. Frederic Crozat (head of the French engineering team) has written a blog post summarizing Mandriva's past work on this front, and the tweaks and improvements made for 2009. It shows that close analysis of inefficiencies in boot, and fixing 'small' bugs, can result in gains as large or larger than 'big picture' items like new initialization systems.
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RE[3]: Comment by Moulinneuf
by Ford Prefect on Mon 29th Sep 2008 19:07
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Can you please explain to me, in detail, how RedHat would have _damaged_ the Linux desktop? Or are the news articles you pointed to enough for you to make this claim?
I'm not a fan of RedHat, and, frankly, I think their distro sucks. But your claim is really bold.
Even if other big players, like Novell (and in a questionable way!) are more into the desktop market than RedHat, how does the absence of RedHat impose any damage?
RE[4]: Comment by Moulinneuf
by AdamW on Mon 29th Sep 2008 21:12
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2005-07-06
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_server_contrib...
we had looked at the git log going back to November of 1999. Since that time there have been 5,846 commits to the X server (from XFree86 to the X.Org fork). We wrote a script to analyze each of these commits in order to look at the number of contributions made by each individual and in turn made by each of the different companies.
No. since 1999.
No , your trying to show *Red Hat* as amoung the largest **desktop** contributors by showing some of the Red hat and Fedora community and developer overall contribution to GNU/Linux.
You want to go longer cycle , fine by me :
Red Hat and Caldera get in the Ring :
http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/linux/red-hat-and-calder...
Q&A: Red Hat says Linux can't beat Windows :
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-120507.html
Red Hat: Stick with Windows at home
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-132566.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(operating_system)
"The Fedora Project was created in late 2003, when Red Hat Linux was discontinued."
Red Hat Skips Consumer Linux Desktop :
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144749/red_hat_skips_...
Whatâs Going On With Red Hat Desktop Systems? An Update :
http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/04/16/whats-going-on-with-red-hat-...
" From the company blog: 'It's worth pointing out what's missing in the list above: we have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future."
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Sure Red Hat contribute the most to GNU/Linux overall , they are after all the 3 billion plus company with around 2200 employee.
What is strange is that for a company this size with so much advantage they are not the GNU/Linux desktop that the OEM and ODM ship the most. Also if you apply a divider by number of employee and worth of the company vs the others , the smaller company contribute a lot more.
Finally beside SCO who took out Caldera they are the company that as damaged the most the GNU/Linux desktop and blocked others.