Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 14, 2007 08:16 AM
And yet stable releases with a release cycle of 1,5 to 2 years are not the ideal solution for the home desktop users.
Hopefully your plans[1] to improve the security, usability and installation support for Debian "testing" will bear fruit in the not-too-distant future. Also the newly elected DPL's pronounced[2] interest in making Debian "sexier" by improving artistic designs and overall usability sound promising.
Frankly, I don't think that OpenSUSE, Fedora or Mandriva can seriously challenge Ubuntu's current popularity but Debian might just be able to do that. Ubuntu's strongest point is that it is based on Debian. Give Debian some artistic polish (themes and such) and make it easy for users to install a relatively up-to-date version of Debian (by releasing regular snapshots of "testing", for instance) and you'll have a winner.
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Re:Etch not reactionary
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 14, 2007 08:16 AMHopefully your plans[1] to improve the security, usability and installation support for Debian "testing" will bear fruit in the not-too-distant future. Also the newly elected DPL's pronounced[2] interest in making Debian "sexier" by improving artistic designs and overall usability sound promising.
Frankly, I don't think that OpenSUSE, Fedora or Mandriva can seriously challenge Ubuntu's current popularity but Debian might just be able to do that. Ubuntu's strongest point is that it is based on Debian. Give Debian some artistic polish (themes and such) and make it easy for users to install a relatively up-to-date version of Debian (by releasing regular snapshots of "testing", for instance) and you'll have a winner.
[1] <a href="http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debian/cut/" title="kitenet.net">http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debian/cut/</a kitenet.net>
[2] <a href="http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/platforms/sho" title="debian.org">http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/platforms/sho</a debian.org>
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