I am not contradicting you, just putting forth a different PoV. Narendra Sisodiya said on Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 03:58:44PM +0530,:
> I am now migrating from Ubuntu to Debian because Debian give all things > which ubuntu provide in a stable form. Welcome!!! > Debian has three branch > 1) Stable > 2) Testing > 3) Unstable.. With "Stable", if some software is not working, you can be assured that it is because you have misconfigured it. Current Stable version is called Lenny. Current Testing is called "Squeeze". Unstable is always called Sid. Sid is the character in the film "Toy Story"; he keeps on breaking your toys. For real advanced users, who can fix their broken toys, there are (4) Experimental, and (5) Incoming too. Have not used "incoming" though. Both are not technically distros, just a repository of latest packages. The official Debian "customer support" will not answer support questions for anything except "stable". You are not supposed other distros unless you know enough about them to use them. I started off with "Woody", (I think a PC Quest Magazine distro, probably compiled by Atul Chitnis - not very sure, then some RH version, and then moved over to Woody). That was some time in 2000 April. 2 years later, moved to testing. For past 6-7 years, using Unstable, upgraded every 2-3 weeks. Yes, my system is broken quite often. I have had to re-install it 2-3 times in past 8 years. IMO, the names "testing", Unstable and Experimental are very misleading; the packages are far more stable than most other distros, including Ubuntu. > Ubuntu and other product are derived from Unstable branch and meant > for mass testing, ?? Not sure what exactly you meant here. AFAIK, Ubuntu uses sources from Debian's unstable branch, and are compiled against later versions of the libraries using latest compiler version(s). > Ubuntu never cared about bug and stick to time table, the famous > 10/10/10 release were having bugs and they released because they > wanted to release it on time. I would rather rephrase it as "Ubuntu gives more importance to timely releases". > Above all, I do not to live with a OS which is controlled by a > company who is targeting on MacOS. Look and feel and behavior of > ubuntu is going towards mac os. What is wrong with that?? In fact, it is not Ubuntu which is imititating OSX. It is the GNOME desktop environment. (correct me if I am wrong). BTW, the film "Toy Story" was produced by Pixar, and Pixar is owned by Steve Jobs, the owner of Apple. You can definitely switch over to KDE from within Ubuntu, without installing Kubuntu. May be you can use Xfce. Icewm, fluxbox etc. Not sure, how to go about doing it, though. > I want to devote my rest of the life for advocating and improving > Debian in India. Welcome. But please do that without pulling down other distros. All distros share their improvements between them. Several Debian developers are paid by Canonical. Debian takes its bits and pieces from even Red Hat In fact, we should be thankful to Red Hat, they have sponsored some of the best fonts in al most all Indic languages. (and several volunteer groups have contributed excellent fonts for each language) The point, each distro does its bit towards improving GNU/Linux. Each distro has its own niche. > Those who want a better look and feel can try latest mint which is > also based on debian - > http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1604 > http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2010/09/07/linux-mint-9-debian/ Why mint rather than Ubuntu or Debian? -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com Distributing free copies of non-free software is -- -- like advertising drugs. _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
