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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2005-08-15
Now, I've read nowhere in this whole thing what Canonical doesn't want us to know.
They have their own "manifest":
it's not as long as the debians' but it's a pretty clear one and everyone will have read it, whereas with debian...
He's spending a 10million dollars a year to this project and hasn't gotten a cent back yet, he has never denied that he didn't want it to become profitable, but ubuntu is always gonna be free of charge and use open source software, so where's the catch? There is never gonna be a vendor lock-in, so one can always switch when things are gonna go bad, which I doubt they will.