Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 03, 2006 06:33 PM
The code and the developers can move from distro to distro, and as long as patches and improvements move upstream then everyone benefits. In Debian's and Ubuntu's case these patches can include specific fixes for the distro, which makes code sharing between them even better.
The difference seems to be in the community around the distro, since that is not readily transferable. For example, pretty much every distro has the GIMP, OpenOffice, etc. but only one has ubuntuforums.org (I would like to point out here that I actually help in the chatrooms and Wikis more often than the forums, but the forums still seem the most popular community gathering).
Personally I moved over to Ubuntu from Debian since a) it seems like I can play a more active role even though my programming skills aren't "1337" and b) Ubuntu seems able to make a bigger difference in terms of getting the users in, then once they are Free they can switch to whatever they want. I really don't like things like this: <a href="http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/515" title="ubuntu.com">http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/515</a ubuntu.com> since they seem to be competing for a tiny fraction of their target audience, and I am perfectly happy to offer whatever support I can to people using any Free Software.
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Re:It isn't like Ubuntu and Debian compeate
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 03, 2006 06:33 PMThe difference seems to be in the community around the distro, since that is not readily transferable. For example, pretty much every distro has the GIMP, OpenOffice, etc. but only one has ubuntuforums.org (I would like to point out here that I actually help in the chatrooms and Wikis more often than the forums, but the forums still seem the most popular community gathering).
Personally I moved over to Ubuntu from Debian since a) it seems like I can play a more active role even though my programming skills aren't "1337" and b) Ubuntu seems able to make a bigger difference in terms of getting the users in, then once they are Free they can switch to whatever they want. I really don't like things like this: <a href="http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/515" title="ubuntu.com">http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/515</a ubuntu.com> since they seem to be competing for a tiny fraction of their target audience, and I am perfectly happy to offer whatever support I can to people using any Free Software.
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