Comment 262 for bug 1

The good folks at lxer.com have built an OEM patch database.
The patches are listed by region and computer type.

http://lxer.com/module/db/index.php?dbn=14

Remember, the patches won't work if you don't use them.

A while back I did a patch count per distro.
Ubuntu was in the lead.

Oct 03, 2006

Summary, what vendors are preinstalling.

Desktops:

24 (18.05%) Ubuntu
20 (15.04%) Suse
19 (14.29%) Fedora
18 (13.53%) Linspire
11 (8.27%) Redhat
8 (6.02%) Debian
8 (6.02%) Xandros
6 (4.51%) Mandriva
5 (3.76%) Gentoo
4 (3.01%) Centos
4 (3.01%) Slackware
2 (1.50%) mephis
1 (0.75%) ELX
1 (0.75%) Frontier
1 (0.75%) Icepack
1 (0.75%) PclinuxOS

Laptops/Notebooks:

13 (22.03%) Ubuntu
10 (16.95%) Fedora
10 (16.95%) Suse
5 (8.47%) Debian
5 (8.47%) Redhat
4 (6.78%) Centos
3 (5.08%) Linspire
3 (5.08%) Mandriva
2 (3.39%) Gentoo
2 (3.39%) Slackware
1 (1.69%) emperorlinux
1 (1.69%) mandrake