[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
"Throughly tested" because it's 3 months old. That's my point. I mean, I used a Debian-based distro a few months back, brand-new distro hot off the mirrors, and it had OOo 1.1.2 on it! I mean, we're on the verge of 1.1.5 - and 2.0 - and the Debs were 2 releases behind, almost 3. If you want up-to-date stuff, Deb is *not* the way to go. If you want "old faithful" releases from last year, then Deb is your distro.
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.
Debian stuff is two or more releases behind the rpm. It's not making the users be beta testers. I'm not talking about beta releases, I'm talking about stuff that's already been alphaed, betaed, RCed, and approved. And *then* Debian starts its "incredible testing process"? No thanks, I'll take what the coders are releasing.
-Chad Smith
