Sorry i am not against Debian. but I have never seen any unstable thing in ubuntu except 10.x versions.
On 12/27/10, Mahesh T. Pai <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > -- Regards RAKESH "Allow Your Own Inner Light to Guide You" _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
