Is Linux a desktop operating system?

[Daniel Robitaille]

> I thought of donating (assuming I had any money to give ie.. :-/ ) to
> Ubuntu. But, considering the massive amount of money that a core
> developer costs, I guess that no matter how many Ubuntu lovers gave
> money, we would still be a long way from having enough money to employ
> say a second Colin Watson or Matt Zimmerman... :-/
> That said, maybe the little money could be employed for "Bounties", to
> get small sub-projects done, that would normally not be worked on by the
> core team, because of work "prioritization" (if that's a word, not
> sure... ;-)

the ratio of /bounties vs developpers salary from donations isn't
listed in their page:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/donations/

> Woud be nice to have a page on the Ubuntu website, that show how much
> donatiosn add up to, how many people donated, and what bounties/work
> this allowed to be carried out, with a link to the details of each
> bounty. That would show people that donations do make a difference an do
> help to make Ubuntu a little better a little faster. That might
> encourage people to donate.

something like this? (but seems a bit out of date):
 http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/bounties/



-- 
Daniel Robitaille