The general lack of civility itself among the coummity, lists, and whatnot, is almost a parody of itself. And, far too often, someone looking for advice on a problem in unstable will be yelled at for using it instead of testing. The old joke about people yelling at anyone asking for a remotely up-to-date package in testing will be relentlessly yelled at for not using unstable. Coincidence or not, it’s been the only distro that’s had the packages I want, in the versions I want, with the minimum of forced compiling. But as unstable has met my needs more than any other distro, it’s been more by coincidence than any real coinciding philosophy of design. Same thing with Freespire, it makes a good desktop distro for new users (though I personally dislike KDE and if they had better Gnome support I’d try it out.) but I can’t imagine any sane person trying to cram Free/linspire onto a server.Īnd, like many others, ubuntu’s looking more inviting every day to me. But if I were to run a server, I think I would still stick with Debian proper. For example, Ubuntu makes several fantastic desktop set up. What I would personally like to see is a merging of distributions kind of like the idea behind the DCC, where everything has a base of Debian all packages are compatible, but each distribution has their own share of tweaks that make it better for their target audience. Hopefully the Freespire project also contributes more back into the core of Debian. But with Debian and Ubuntu both working on the core of the Debian family, it’ll benefit all.

They have slackened their requirements on being a developer after Sarge, so Etch is leaps and bounds above that (more so to me it seems than the change from Woody to Sarge was) but I think that introduces more bugs. This also made Debian the most stable distribution out there (at least in my experience). Since most of Ubuntu’s work goes back into Debian anyhow, this is just kind of a shift of a developer from working through the Debian mail lists to the Ubuntu ones.įor a long time, Debian was so slow to make releases because they were so strict on who could become an official developer. From what I can gather, it sounds as if he’s leaving Debian’s mailing lists behind and just working on Ubuntu.

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