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The only thing I like about Shuttleworth is that he is a pretty motivated guy and actually manages to get things implemented (as opposed to the next 1000 guys with ideas that do nothing about them).

I think his problem is that he holds on to a losing model way too long (sort of like when you have a stock and it's going down and down and down and you are only relying on hope at that point when realistically you should cut your losses).

There is evidence to his broken model from an interview with him about 7 years ago when he was being asked about his "famous" Ubuntu Bug #1: Microsoft has too much market share. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

He said, in that interview https://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/11/17/people-behind-debian-mark-shuttleworth-ubuntus-founder/ that this would be the solution: "The key to that dream is economics, and as always, a change in economics; it was clear to me that the flow of money around personal software would change from licensing (“buying Windows”) to services (“paying for your Ubuntu ONE storage”)." But I don't think that jives with reality. I don't think you can dominate with an Open Source project based on ideas relating to money.

You can even read in his blog and articles that his biggest frustration with Debian is that one person was not in charge, so it lacked a unified vision. That's great, but everything Shuttleworth does he wants to be the leader in, which is why he goes about re-implementing Canonical-only projects that already exist in the Linux-sphere that he could work with instead. And the problem with wanting to be the leader of everything is that when you are wrong you must realize it or you end up far outside of reality. But maybe he is starting to realize it now.

Please don't go around your Debian system with rm to remove man pages, docs and localization...

Instead use the path-exclude mechanism of dpkg:

http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010...

You should pick Debian for 'new hotness'.

You also will if you're running the Debian version named Sid.

That is in fact the version used by Mint and Ubuntu when they roll their distributions.

So, it is in fact both hotter and cooler.

Still read this http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/20/5-reasons-why-debian-unstable-does-not-deserve-its-name/

So send your donation over there: http://raphaelhertzog.com/support-my-work/ You should not speak too quickly :-)

I think there is some confusion here. Red Hat is no longer providing separate patches in the Red Hat kernel package. I am pretty sure Red Hat will continue to provide patches back to the kernel development community. I don't think the kernel developer community are downloading the Red Hat source RPM for the kernel and extracting the patches to include in the tree.

I'm confused too. Red Hat says they still submit their patches upstream first, but then some kernel developers suggest that they poke around in the release kernel instead. I'm not sure which is which, whether RH is playing dirty, or whether there are specific incidents which are causing problems in an otherwise supportive relationship...