Bruce Byfield wrote:
To be honest, I took Shuttleworth's interest for granted and assumed
everyone else did, too. I just wanted to remind everyone that none of
the commentary is disinterested.
Nothing sinister in that -- I just thought it needed mentioning.
On this note, my bias is that I really like Ubuntu :-)
Yesterday I setup a LAMP server with Ubuntu. It was very easy. I was
expecting it to be so difficult, but they did a great job at it.
My suspicion is based on the fact that Ian has made otherwise strange
public comments that Mandriva should convert to Debian to become
competitive against Red Hat. He seems to have volunteered these comments
without any other suggestion that Mandriva would do such a thing. In the
same article, he suggests that Mandriva should continue its acquisition
of small distros, and ducks the question of whether Progeny would be
receptive to an offer.
I could be wrong, but I believe that the technical term for such
comments is "fishing."
I'd certainly like to see Mandriva switch to Debian. From my experience,
Debian provides a perfect basis from which to make distributions. Debian
provides a massive collection of throughly tested software for every
platform you could want. And all is incredibly easy to install. Surely,
it makes sense to use this as the basis for your distribution than
trying to do all the packaging and testing yourself, which is what all
the RPM distros end up doing. People forget that there's more to Debian
than apt-get. Just because now RPM distros have yum, urpmi and even
apt-get, it doesn't mean that it's like Debian. The basis that Debian
provides is almost impossible to duplicate. And there is really no point
in duplicating. Which takes us back to why I doubt Ubuntu is trying to
duplicate it.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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