22 Apr
2006
22 Apr
'06
10:19 a.m.
On Friday 21 April 2006 14:52, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki was like:
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Yes and no. I agree with the sentiment you are expressing here, however there
are differences. DeMuDi is a Custom Debian Distribution, Knoppix and Ubuntu
et al actually are separate distros based on Debian. Packages from the latter
are not guaranteed to play nicely with the fomer and if it breaks ... yadda
yadda. If DeMuDi packages break Debian and vs::vs we would regard that as a
bug. DeMuDi developers have to deal with the Debian infrastructure. Ubuntu
devs can avoid it to a certain extent. Corrections from the Ubuntu camp
welcome on this. The distros in question all benefit from each others' work
to varying extents.
paul wisehart wrote:
I don't know exactly how accurate this is wrt debian vs ubuntu, but
perhaps it would be useful to think of debian-based distros more in the
sense of the relation that demudi has to debian proper. That is to say
that the ubuntus and demudis and knoppixes, etc, etc, etc, are more
customized ways of getting a debian system installed or running than
separate fractured distros. They are like the various development
branches of the kernel, or any other large project, in a sense. They
exist because they are useful to a certain subset of the main project's
users and because they allow certain subsets of needs and problems to be
worked out. Its frustrating how fractured linux has become.
(But, maybe it always was.)
Switching distros *IS* a solution.
Switching distros *IS* a solution that should only
happen *ONCE* because your switching from a bad distro.
Yep, I switched from some RPM based distro to Debian about
5 years ago. I now use both Debian and Ubuntu which are so
similar its not really valid to treat them as separate
distros. In the ideal world view those branched efforts will
get folded back into
the mainline project once the issues are sorted out.
The good news is: This is already the case - packages from Ubuntu and DeMuDi
do already get folded back into Debian.
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cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim