Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 12th Aug 2006 23:42 UTC
"Debian and Ubuntu. Ubuntu and Debian. How are they different? How are they the same? Well, most of the differences lie in the target userbase of the OSes. Debian is attempting the unattemptable by making a distro that's right for almost every use imaginable. Servers use it, workstations use it, monkeys I'm sure could use it too. That comes at a price." More here.
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2005-12-04
I fear that the day will come when Debian is "dead" from the lack of userbase and a caring comunity, and if that day day actualy comes Canonical will have all the freedom in the world to turn Ubuntu into "Something Better" by forcing wierd-unholy-drm-eula like stuff down the Joe "Uncaring" User throat.
This really is a silly comment. If Debian dies, Ubuntu dies. Or at the very least, Ubuntu has to *become* Debian overnight. What many Ubuntu *users* don't seem to get is that Ubuntu directly benefits from the *enormous* development community Debian has. Sure, Debian isn't the most polished & exciting distro out there, but there are a TON of extremely capable developers making it reliable, stable & capable of being used as the foundations for distros like Ubuntu. This Debian development community makes it possible for Ubuntu's developers to focus on user interface & usability issues without spending all their time on the boring internals.
I don't think this attitude that Ubuntu is a replacement for Debian is universal, but I do fear many don't get that it's an *extension* of Debian in such a way that without Debian, there would be no Ubuntu (certainly not on a 6-month release cycle). I would very much like to see a distro that maintains a 6-month release cycle while providing the extroardinary stability and consistency of the Debian distro *without* Debian. It just doesn't exist.