[OT] Re: Ubuntu bad for debian?

Tue Apr 12 16:27:53 UTC 2005

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 07:21, Simon Santoro wrote:

what's this crud doing in a text only mailing list then???

oh by the way, I think most of us in here are perfectly capable of finding 
slashdot on our own, thank you ;)

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> <p><b></b><b>From Slashdot:<br>
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> <b>Posted by
> <a href="http://www.monkey.org/%7Etimothy/">timothy</a>
> on 12/04/05 2:09</b><br>
> <font size="2"><b>from the divergence dept.</b></font><br>
> An anonymous reader submits <i>"Following Friday&apss release of Ubuntu
> Linux 5.04, Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian project, told
> internetnews.com: &aps<a
>  href="http://internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3496541">Ubuntu&apss
> popularity is a net negative for Debian.</a>&aps
> He explained: &apsIt&apss diverged so far from Sarge that packages built
> for Ubuntu often don&apst work on Sarge. And given the momentum behind
> Ubuntu, more and more packages are being built like this. The result is a
> potential compatibility nightmare.&aps <a
>  href="http://ianmurdock.com/archives/000244.html">Ian suggests a
> method for averting crisis on his blog</a>."</i>
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