On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:46:16PM -0500, Rob Shinn wrote: > That's just silly. I use Ubuntu on my desktops and servers mostly > because I prefer the extra fit-and-polish it has to Debian. But I've > used both and the packages themselves are basically the same. A > particular Ubuntu stable release package of Samba is more likely to be > more current than the Debian stable release, but that's a result of > policy differences, not technical ones. The source for the packages is > the same: the Debian package repos. The main difference is that Ubuntu > might add a patch or two that hasn't made it into the stable Debian > package yet, but other than that, they are the same.
Intesting, given I stick with debian because I prefer things that upgrade correctly (something ubuntu really needs some polish on). I guess it depends where you like your polish applied. > Kudos to the good work of the Debian devs. Without you, there would be > no Ubuntu and the world would be much worse off without Debian. > > As far as the comments on Fedora, you're also aware that the Ubuntu devs > follow Fedora development and take away some of their best stuff, too, > right? -- Len Sorensen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
