Ubuntu in the news: Libervis becomes more balanced in the arguments against Ubuntu, actually positive

Christian Jensen cj2003 at debian-news.net
Wed Sep 28 02:04:26 CDT 2005


Apologies that I don't link directly to Libervis.com, but I'm quite 
handicapped through VPN - the news is here at Debian-News:

http://debian-news.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=200

Here's a good example from the it:
Quote:

    Fork or not?

    According to the current results of our poll, the community is far
    from agreeable on the answer to this question. I would say that it
    is so because they are searching for the wrong thing or maybe the
    question just seems to mandate that the answer should be merely
    "yes" or "no", that is, "it's a fork" or "it's a derivate". I think
    that the right answer would be neither or in the same sense *both*.
    What Ubuntu is, is a Debian *based* GNU/Linux distro, but that
    doesn't essentially make it neither a fork or a derivate if you'd
    closely follow the meaning of those two.

    Good part of the commentators would say something I tend to agree
    with as the best possible answer; Ubuntu is a fork of Debian release
    cycle and derivate of the rest (the actual package management system
    and the unstable package repository). This answer also makes sense
    particularly considering that the strictness of Ubuntu six month
    release cycle actually is the very source of any incompatibility
    issues that arise. As Ubuntu "snapshots" Debian unstable to make a
    new release of it, Debian unstable itself still continues to evolve
    essentially diverging itself from the point at which it was when the
    snapshot has been made and thus from the snapshot and its outcome;
    the new Ubuntu release. The only bridge remaining as a possible
    compatibility saviour are all the patches that Ubuntu sends back,
    but their implementation isn't ensured as it depends on debian
    maintainers' and their decision of whether the recieved patch fits
    Debian and it's goals or not.


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Christian Jensen

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