Yes, they're taking the source code from upstream, modifying ("patching") it, compiling it, then uploading their compiled binaries to the Ubuntu repo where your system downloads them during an update.

You can technically download the source code as well, if you activate the source repo. But hardly any end user does. And the source code you get doesn't compile to the same binary you get from the repo anyway. (This would be called a "reproducible build". Some distros try to be reproducible. Ubuntu doesn't, they have other priorities.)

You trust their repos.
With every apt update, they could push whatever code they want onto your PC.
Same as with literally any binary-based OS.

So can Canonical. The difference is, they don't.

You can tell it's a man by how badly he parked.

You were young.
Even at age 30 your brain is already less adaptable than at 20.

I think I was pretty clear with what I was asking in this thread:

"Is anyone here using an enterprise Linux distro?"

Can I assume you're not actually running an enterprise distro?

I mean, me neither, yet, but:

• Both SUSE and Red Hat have had a minor release this year, with their software being less out of date than Debian
• I feel like enterprise distros seem to be very different in the areas where differences between distros actually matter: Package management (which can be fine-tuned a lot more with application streams, security updates, package modules, etc.) and complete, up-to-date documentation (which is the thing most people miss in Linux).

I was really looking for real world experience, not a re-hashing of unvalidated opinions that have been around for >10 years (when they might have actually been true).

So a lawsuit against Google will end up killing Firefox?

mating behavior
The initiation of physical contact is completely independent from sex, size, or residency status.
However, sperm is only released during sexual interaction with females but not with males,
which indicates that upon copulation, the male can distinguish the difference on whether to inseminate or not.

Huh, neat.

How can we even know it's a planet when we haven't observed a single orbit, yet?
Maybe it's just a really big comet.

banned on Instagram

If the servers can only handle a certain number of players, then they should only sell a certain number of licenses for the game.
Then, when concurrent player numbers drop over time, they can release more.

But no, they'll happily take the money from everyone on launch even though their servers can't handle the load.