Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 9th Sep 2006 19:54 UTC
Mark Shuttleworth writes on his blog: "I'm of the opinion that Ubuntu could not exist without Debian. So it's absolutely my intention to see that Ubuntu is a constructive part of the broader Debian landscape. It's vital that Ubuntu help to sustain and grow Debian, because it's the breadth and strength of Debian which make up the 'shoulders of greatness' on which we in the Ubuntu community stand when we reach for the stars."
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2006-01-01
This is the real point buried within Mark's slick pandering. He thinks the Debian project should focus on Sid [...] In Mark's view of the world, Debian is not an end-user system.
This is also where Mark Shuttleworth is most clearly wrong. Debian is widely used for servers and Debian has constantly shown significant growth on that sector. In fact, I think there are much, much more Debian servers out there than there are Debian desktops. And these servers don't use Sid, they use Debian stable.
Ubuntu, on the other hand, has yet to show that people trust it as server. So far Ubuntu has "only" been home users' favourite desktop, showing number of page hits at DistroWatch and some media attention.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedora_makes_rapid_pro...
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/12/05/strong_growth_for_debi...