On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Manoj Srivastava
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote:
>> So, a project that handles only a fraction of the packages
>> Debian does (only a couple thousand in the main repo, iirc), 95% of
>> which it pulls through unchanged from Debian (there does no work on
>> them), which handles one tenth of the architectures Debian supports,
>> with corporate backing from a billionaire (which Debian does not have),
>> they do less well of a job than unpaid Debian volunteers can, and for
>> that stellar performance, they are suppoosed to be criticism free?
>>
>
> Compare the number of volunteer contricuters of debian and ubuntu!
I thought the numbers of Ubuntu MOTUs were legion?
> Compare the time-span of existence of ubuntu and debian !
After a couple of years and 3-4 releases, you reach steady
state. You ought to have your sshit together well enough to feed
patches et al upstream by then.
> Your above statement sounds to me like "Telling a startup to close
> it`s business , Because they are not as big as IBM"
Ubuntu is not a startup any more. They have been around since
October 2004. That is 4 years and counting. In terms of distributions,
they are well into middle age.
manoj
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