Ubuntu is now worried about profits

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> On Sun, April 25, 2010 17:14, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
>> Manish Sinha wrote:
>>> On 4/25/2010 6:08 PM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> 
>>>> Since when did I ever mention customization? Do you even know what I am
>>>> talking about?
>>>>
>>> Then you need to explain exactly what you meant by it. If you use a
>>> generic term, it can have multiple meanings.
>>>
>> Oh, right, flexible. Let's take just one example, or maybe the only
>> example since I never got round to taking a look at what else d-i had to
>> offer (and no ubuntu-installer does not come close and is not suitable
>> for mass rollouts...it is as you pointed out, a simple installer for the
>> single desktop), partitioning, lvm and raid. You cannot use preseed and
>> make recipes for both raid and lvm nor can you have exact partitioning.
>> Guess why stuff like fai are around. Give me Debian, thank you very much.
> 
> Smart admins know that Ubuntu is just yet another Debian, and that they
> can install Ubuntu with exactly the same Debian tools like debootstrap. I
> do that all the time. I really don't know what the Ubuntu installer looks
> like.
> 

I was comparing d-i against anaconda you know...and no, Ubuntu is not 
another Debian. You cannot use apt to dist-upgrade without risks. It 
uses stuff that Debian does not. Not every Debian admin would be happy 
to roll out Ubuntu. Some would probably stay far away, even if it is an 
LTS release.