The Debian definition of free is different too don't forget! But yea- your basically right. For the most part the Debian definition and the FSF definition align pretty well. I don't know that it would be any easier to base Trisquel off Debian or vice versa. It might be easier to base it off gNewSense if things can be aligned with that project. While I wouldn't discourage collaboration I'm not sure the gNewSense project and the Trisquel projects share the same target user base. I think you would need to go look back at why Trisquel moved to Ubuntu and why various distributions have moved back or considered moving back.

I think ultimately that both Debian stable & Ubuntu LTS have had instability and bugs. Ubuntu LTS releases do tend to have newer versions of many packages. Particularly programs that are desktop oriented. For that reason Ubuntu LTS tends to make a better desktop base. If you asked me Debian is better suited for the server than Ubuntu. Mainly because I have confidence that Debian will be around in 5 years. I can't say that about Canonical and Ubuntu.

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