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    [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    10 years security updates, plus security patches for community packages (instead of waiting on community patches). It's basically the corporate support plan provided for free for up to 5 machines per account.

    [–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    security patches for community packages (instead of waiting on community patches)

    I'm not sure I understand that part. Is Canonical implementing the patches instead of the open source project/package developers? I'm confused.

    [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    Exactly. In Debian, the community implements security patches. In Ubuntu, Canonical implements security patches for a part of the repo (main), the community implements them for the remainder (universe). This has been the standard since Ubuntu's inception. With Ubuntu Pro, Canonical implements security patches for the whole repo (main and universe).

    [–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    So they're actively involved in the development of open source projects then?

    [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    Not necessarily. For all of these cases, Debian, Ubuntu, Pro, the community and Canonical are package maintainers. Implementing patches means means one of: grabbing a patch from upstream and applying it to a package (least work, no upstream contribution); deriving a patch for the package from the latest upstream source (more work, no upstream contribution); creating a fix that doesn't exist upstream and applying it to the package (most work, possible upstream contribution). I don't know what their internal process is for this last case but I imagine they publish fixes. I've definitely seen Canonical upstreaming bug fixes in GNOME, because that's where I have been paying attention to at some point in time. If you consider submitting such patches upstream as actively involved in project development, then they are actively involved. I probably wouldn't consider that active involvement just like I don't consider myself actively involved when I submit a bug fix to some project.

    [–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

    Ah ok I see. Thanks for the clarification.