Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

["Michael M." <mcubed@slashmail.org>]

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 14:45 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:

> However, the predictability that it appears you want, timely releases at
> predefined intervals, is not very likely to be realistic with Debian.

That's exactly right, at least based on the history of the project and
its release cycles, such as they are.  That's the rub.  I'm not
expecting or even asking that Debian change its character or modus
operandi just for me (or for users like me, who would appreciate a
greater emphasis on timeliness than currently exists).  I'm just saying
it is what bugs me about how Debian works, and in the end, if anything
finally causes me to move on to a different distro once and for all,
it's that -- the lack of predictability; the long release cycles that
result in the long feature freezes; that whatever "stable" happens to be
at the time of release, it is inevitably behind the curve (compared to
many other distros) in terms of freshness.  At the same time, it's also
ahead of almost everybody else in terms of stablity and reliability.

As always, each user has to decide for himself whether any given OS's
priorities are the best fit with his own priorities.  There's no "right
answer" for everybody, or we'd all be using the same distro, a BSD,
Windows, OS X.  


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Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
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