Except many of those contributions never land upstream.

Hence why we usually with the cloud provider distros.

Example, what powers DGX OS isn't fully available to GNU/Linux users other than a binary blob.

jm4 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That’s the wrong way to look at it. Instead, look at how much does land upstream. Linux moves at an incredible pace.

Edit: BTW the figure I cited are contributors to mainline.

	▲	pjmlp an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yet it is still a mess to support laptops, because everything still needs to be reverse engineered instead of landing into upstream.

> Example, what powers DGX OS isn't fully available to GNU/Linux users other than a binary blob.

What do you mean? Are they violating the GPL by not releasing the modified source?

	▲	pjmlp 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Most of their stuff isn't GPL anyway, hence why drivers are mostly in userspace.