I think RedHat, Novell, IBM, Google are some of the institutions that send more patches to the kernel. There are a lot of independent and anonymous guys too. Maybe people at University? I don't know. BUT Canonical are not one of those companies. Maybe for GNOME. But I think the most exciting desktop development are happening with KDE/Qt anyway.
2010/9/13 Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at:
Canonical does do a lot of GNOME development tho, from what I've heard. They do contribute a lot of code, but in different areas. But it would be interesting to see how the various GNU/Linux companies compare in terms of how much code they contribute.
.hc
On Sep 13, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote:
come'on, I hate brown... :-)
One thing is that Canonical do much much less to Linux kernel development then RedHat. They don't give back :-(
2010/9/13 András Murányi muranyia@gmail.com:
Well, i never really used Fedora... I used RH back then, and when i was to get back to Linux after XP, I have evaluated many distros, and Ubuntu seemed kinda promising. Why did it seem promising to me?
- large user base
- entirely non-for-profit
- targeted the desktop more definitely than some others
- software with different copyrights avalable in a rather integrated way
(universe, multiverse, medibuntu)
- nice brownish look :o)
Andras
2010/9/14 Bernardo Barros bernardobarros2@gmail.com
just curious... why switch from fedora to ubuntu?
2010/9/13 Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at:
The Debian tools make it quite easy and manageable to build your own kernel. Try that before switching :) .hc On Sep 13, 2010, at 4:21 PM, András Murányi wrote:
Ahh, livna.... You know, know that i have convinced my Fedora friends to switch to Ubuntu, what do I tall them when i go back? :o) I'll take a look at it, and also at home-brewing a kernel. Maybe that's the way forward.
Thanks, Andras
2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros bernardobarros2@gmail.com
Then you have to add Fusion free+non-free (maybe livna?) to your repos.
2010/9/13 András Murányi muranyia@gmail.com: > > Hhh, switching distro seems harder than moving to another country > sometimes... :o) > I heard that some non-free stuff if missing from Fedora, does CCRMA > have > these? Like some proprietary codecs, etc... > > 2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros bernardobarros2@gmail.com >> >> yes, planet_ccrma is a repo for the Fedora/CentOS/RedHat family >> I like it >> >> 2010/9/13 András Murányi muranyia@gmail.com: >>> >>> Hmm, hmm. That means switching to Fedora, right? >>> >>> 2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros bernardobarros2@gmail.com >>>> >>>> Planet CCRMA offers rt-kernel for x86_64 systems. Give it a try. >>>> >>>> 2010/9/13 András Murányi muranyia@gmail.com: >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:59 PM, jm jones juanmjv@gmail.com >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, usually I install the 64 bits version of, but the last >>>>>> time, >>>>>> I >>>>>> dont remember why : ) (maybe to avoid any problems) I >>>>>> installed >>>>>> the >>>>>> 32 >>>>>> bits version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Is a repo of pd-extended for >>>>>> 10.04 >>>>>> available? >>>>>> And about the 32 vs 64 bits, what are your choices? And what >>>>>> about >>>>>> distros? Pure:dyne seems more lightweight with his xfce >>>>>> desktop, >>>>>> however I have a good processor (core 2 duo intel e7200) and >>>>>> 2gb >>>>>> of >>>>>> ram, planning an update to 6gb, so I dont know if xfce is a >>>>>> must >>>>>> for >>>>>> me. >>>>>> Im a "veteran" gnu/linux user, but the last years I was using >>>>>> OS >>>>>> X >>>>>> and >>>>>> W7 for music making. In Linux I want to use pd, Renoise (its >>>>>> available >>>>>> as 64 bits too), and wine for some vsts. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi There, >>>>> >>>>> I'm sort of a veteran too (started on IBM AIX in 1992, used Red >>>>> Hat >>>>> for >>>>> a >>>>> long time, then went back to Windows 98, later XP, which i gave >>>>> up >>>>> finally a >>>>> few years ago). >>>>> I'm using vanilla Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit with Gnome (and 2GB of >>>>> memory), >>>>> and my >>>>> impression is that it's not the WM that makes things slow, but >>>>> in >>>>> the >>>>> case >>>>> of Pd, it's Pd itself. Read the archives on GUI<->core >>>>> communication >>>>> and >>>>> Tcl/Tk weirdnesses. The 64-bit version of Pd is quite tidy now, >>>>> well >>>>> actually there was a time when it seemed to me a bit slower >>>>> than >>>>> the >>>>> 32-bit >>>>> version, but AFAIK there's no reason for that any more (?) >>>>> With a decent CPU and that huge amount of RAM you (will) have, >>>>> it >>>>> really >>>>> cannot be a question of WM whatsoever. Of course, the system >>>>> has >>>>> to >>>>> be >>>>> tuned >>>>> for realtime, undisturbed audio usage, which may include >>>>> getting >>>>> rid >>>>> of >>>>> eye-candy functions, but i never experienced a problem with >>>>> those. >>>>> After >>>>> all, they use openGL, don't they? >>>>> The same stands for pure:dyne; at the core it's a linux kernel, >>>>> and >>>>> what >>>>> you >>>>> install on (or remove from) the top, it's up to you. >>>>> The only thing i'm missing here on 64-bit is the RT kernel. >>>>> Once i >>>>> find >>>>> a >>>>> nice quick way, i'll grab it, but i'm not really into >>>>> home-brewing >>>>> my >>>>> kernel. :) >>>>> >>> >>> > > > > -- > Muranyi Andras >
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