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 -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
