Why Debian
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Normally I write very short, like a Haiku
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku>; but I think this letter shall be
the exception. So excuse me 😳
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THE HISTORY
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My name is Alberto Salvia Novella
<https://launchpad.net/%7Ees20490446e>. Till 2008 I investigated how to
create a Windows based reliable desktop computer system, till I did it
and I realized nearly no one else will be able to do it without
expending great amounts of time and money.
One night I dreamed I had a very old looking but robust operating system
installed on my computer, and eventually realized that what I should do
is to look for something that was like what I saw. Although at the time
I didn't know a thing about any other operating systems different to
Windows or even libre software, I downloaded and tried in deep about
fifty different operating systems from the time intensively for three years.
Without reading a line of other people opinion, it seemed to me at the
time Ubuntu was by far the best option in overall. But latter it went
very buggy, and I began to pose myself why was that. What seemed more
probable to me is Canonical chose to make radical decisions and, rowing
against tide, selected to do something very different from what other
distributions had done to the moment; in order to discover how they
could make libre software to grow in popularity.
Being between jumping to other distribution (Debian or Mageia) and
giving this mind scope of Canonical a try, I decided five months ago the
best action I could do was to get more involved with the project and
empower it from its roots; and see what will happen and what the real
problems are.
After five months; the latest project coordinator of the "One Hundred
Papercuts <https://launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts>" project, from
Canonical, has asked me to take on the project. So; with the help of the
team; I have redesigned branding and project goals, and have make a
serious commitment to make it shine
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/One%20Hundred%20Papercuts/One%20Hundred%20Papercuts%20will%20make%20Ubuntu%20shine>.
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THE POINT
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The point is yet very simple: I suspect Debian has a mindset that makes
it stand out, I can imagine what kind of values these are, and I want
them to become widespread. And now I feel I have the opportunity to show
and convince the Ubuntu community to adapt them, and probable with it
many people around the world.
So I wanted to ask you the following question so it can't be said it's
only my imagination. Summarizing:
Which are the very important reasons why do you prefer Debian over Ubuntu?
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