Whoa! I don't get why or how a release party thread could turn into a Pros-Cons debate.
But I am definitely interested in a Debian release party. On 4/30/13, Gaurav Paliwal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I think debates like which distro is good or which language is better > then others are not worthy enough to engage into. All these things vary > greatly based on individual. Every distro, every language and every IDE > has its own pros and cons and they are almost incomparable. > > With Regards, > Gaurav Paliwal > From: Sanjay Gupta > Sent: 04/29/2013 PM 05:00 > To: Sudhanwa Jogalekar; > ilugd-bounces+sanjaygupta.amritsar=gmail....@lists.linux-delhi.org; > Rohan Garg > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Debian Wheezy coming on 05.05.2013 > I think we should not forget our goals. How can we take the solutions > to the masses when we cannot resolve our differences within our home. > They are still 97% of desktop market. > Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sudhanwa Jogalekar <[email protected]> > Sender: ilugd-bounces+sanjaygupta.amritsar=gmail....@lists.linux-delhi.org > Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:34:09 > To: Rohan Garg<[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Debian Wheezy coming on 05.05.2013 > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Rohan Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Parin >> >>> Sorry Rohan but these days Ubuntu is a different story, especially for >>> the past few years, the project is going a different way. >>> >>> IMHO, in a quest to replace Windows it has gone the Windows way by >>> introducing malicious features like Spyware[1] in it. >>> >> >> Whoa, let me just stop you right there for a moment. Ubuntu is the >> name of the whole project but also the name of some products/flavors . >> So this is clearly aimed towards a particular flavor. Just wanted to >> clarify that before proceeding. >> >>> So personally I don't use it or recommend it to anyone, moreover for me >>> Debian Release party was more of community event, to celebrate the >>> release of a universal GNU/Linux OS which has been there for a long >>> time, almost 20 years, with most of things taken care by volunteers >>> while Ubuntu is more of the Canonical thing now. So IMHO I don't think >>> we can have a release party together, for them. >>> >> >> I strongly disagree with the statement that Ubuntu is merely `a >> Canonical thing now`. There are various flavors of Ubuntu like Kubuntu >> / Xubuntu / Lubuntu which have a strong community side attached to it. >> I find it offensive that you chastise the entire community for the >> actions of a company that is just one aspect of the whole Ubuntu >> ecosystem. Not taking sides, but Canonical provides alot of tools, >> infrastructure and manpower that allows all these flavors to come to >> fruition. Not to mention that alot of foundations work done in Ubuntu >> finds its way back into Debian. >> >>> Don't want to start a Debian v/s Ubuntu debate, here because IMHO they >>> are incomparable, with the kind of purposes for which they are >>> developed. >>> >> >> Neither do I, everyone is entitled to their opinions, however, it >> seems to me you have a very limited view of what Ubuntu is. Now that >> I've (hopefully) widened your view a bit, would you still be open to >> the idea of having a Ubuntu + Debian release party? I strongly believe >> that both Ubuntu and Debian need each other in order to survive and >> that there should be more friendly relationships between the two. > > Debian will not need Ubuntu to survive but Ubuntu will always need Debian. > > -Sudhanwa > > > ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! > President, Wikimedia India www.wikimedia.in > web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in > Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > -- > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
