Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Apr 2007 12:40 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"How many developers run for the post of leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project and cite as part of their platform a desire to make Debian sexy again? None that I know of - except Sam Hocevar who won the recent election for leader of the project. One among eight who put forward their cases to the 1043-odd developers who are eligible to vote, Hocevar modestly puts his election down to 'luck'. He says it is a vote for change."
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2005-07-09
Not really a good comparison. No, Debian has never been sexy but it used to be the most Cosmopolitan distribution out there -- a hub of new ideas and the mixing of various cultures into a messy but cohesive whole. These days it's lost a lot of that Cosmopolitan shine to Ubuntu and settled for a more "boring world city that works because it always did with one cosmopolitan suburb called Ubuntu".
Debian still has a chance to re-earn that Cosmopolitan but it needs to focus on learning a few things that Ubuntu did right, like having regular releases so 3rd party projects can co-ordinate properly (it's just a matter of project management and having hard feature freezes and long stabilization periods) and, more importantly, customized packagings of Debian's packages that aim at different target areas. Ian Murdock tried to create something like this with "Component Debian" (http://componentizedlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page), but Ubuntu delivered a "good enough" version of in practical terms with all it's Ubuntu offshoots that are really just configurations of the common Ubuntu repository.
Edited 2007-04-30 14:56