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| Authored by: jplatt39 on Saturday, July 14 2012 @ 02:40 PM EDT |
Having installed both Debian and slackware back in the day I have to say that
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| Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Saturday, July 14 2012 @ 11:28 PM EDT |
When Ubuntu started Debian was stuck in eternal development. The Stable version
was hopelessly outdated. Ubuntu was, I believe, a major imputes for Debian to
move toward a more aggressive release schedule.
That said we have transitioned our servers to Ubuntu (from Slackware which we
liked but found to be too far behind the adoption curve for us)and find Ubuntu
stable and generally easy to maintain. So we will probably stay with Ubuntu
until they screw up.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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| Authored by: mschmitz on Sunday, July 15 2012 @ 08:36 PM EDT |
Ubuntu had hired quite a few of the core Debian developers of the day when they
started up. In that sense, they are more like than unlike Debian (leaving aside
the use of the same package management system by both).
Debian was plagued with slow release cycles, in part but not wholly due to the
wide range of processor architectures supported. Losing a few core developers
can't have helped, I imagine. Relying on volunteers entirely, and growing beyond
a certain scale won't have helped either.
Release cycles do appear to have improved now, legacy ports have been
discontinued and Ubuntu has made a number of questionable choices regarding
technical aspects of development. Suddenly, Debian looks good again :-)
Thanks for the vote of confidence to rank Debian among other large
distributions. That means a lot to a long time (but mostly retired) Debian
developer.
Personally, I have been tracking the Ubuntu long term releases at work and at
home for a few years now. The option to upgrade a years old installation with a
minimum of fuss is what made me switch from Win2k and RHEL to Ubuntu. If new
releases get progressively incompatible with the rest of Linux, I may have to
reconsider.
Now remind me - why is all this in the Dead Parrot thread?
-- mschmitz
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