Distributor Patches: Linspire 5.0 and Some Others

First, greetings to everyone who is still (already 2nd April here) reading this entry on http://planet.gnome.org. :-)

I wanted to complete my collection of distributor patches with the ones Linspire has applied to the Qt and KDE packages in their Five-0 release. So I contacted them because I didn't find a hint where to get the sources. Their support offered to send me a CD with the source code. I again stated that I'm only interested in Qt and KDE related patches and would prefer a download. Seems I was the first asking for that or for sources at all. :-) They put up two Source CD images on a slow server which they linked in their warehouse (http://my.linspire.com My Products/CD Downloads). So I registered there, downloaded 1.2GB 10+ hours long and then had to diff myself against the original tarballs. I guess the (L)GPL is not talking about getting patches, convenient and fast. :-( The result of all efforts are compressed 845KB big (size is partly due to release->branch diffs) Linspire 5.0 patches. On first sight Linspire didn't patch much, at least much less than SUSE or Mandrake in comparison.

Other recent patches additions include the patches of ArkLinux 2005.1, Mandrake 10.2-rc2 and Fedora Core4-test1. The SUSE 9.3 (note the mention of my K menu entries right-click options :-)) srpms should also be available shortly on ftp.suse.com when the first SUSE subscription customers receive their package.

Have fun exploring the patches!