Debian dated? [was: Re: Announcement from www.kubuntu.de]

[paul cooke]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 16:36, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 05:55, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > Michael M. wrote:
> > > Isn't an Ubuntu release more-or-less a
> > > snapshot of Debian's unstable branch, with Ubuntu-specific
> > > customizations and configurations?
> >
> > And recompiled to use the toolchain that Ubuntu ships with, and tested
> > and configured as a unit. It's more than repackaging.
>
> Ubuntu was very useful when it was more or less a frozen and
> bug-fixed Debian Testing.  Sadly, the Fedora-like continual
> experimentation in Ubuntu now is forcing our clients to Debian.
>

that's why we're working hard on Dapper as it is intended to support it for 5 
years...

> --Mike Bird