Debian is a very tightly controlled by a team, a meritocracy and a social contract that binds them together. In many ways it is a leader and on the bleeding edge. The problem is that things move incredibly slowly in Debian and nothing gets done without much discussion and re-discussion. But ahead of that there is much planning and work that others benefit from. Debian may seem to be stable to the end user, but it is in constant flux.
Ubuntu on the other hand is a dictatorship and it can move incredibly quickly and sometimes impulsively. It can get them into trouble from which they sometimes need to backtrack. So which is more conservative, a dictatorship or a socialist elitist team? Both are problematic and both have benefits.
Debian stable is conservative in the sense that it takes a long time to get to where it is considered to be stable. But Debian is more than just Debian stable. There is the bleeding edge of Debian unstable where constant experimentation occurs.
I am not meaning to contradict you. I am just asking that you consider that things are not always what they seem.
Roy
On Friday, April 25, 2014 2:05:38 PM, John Ferrell <jferrell13@triad.rr.com> wrote:
As a Newbie myself, this is the way I see it:
Debian is a conservative product. The latest distro is not a work in
process, every effort is made to make it ready to work without
unpleasant surprises.
Ubuntu takes a more aggressive stance with its product. They want the
latest and greatest NOW! They are good at avoiding most disasters with
their testing but they intend to be on the cutting edge of performance,
features and bling.
It seems there are some "innovations" in Firefox that concerns the
Debian folks. They choose to not endorse the current Firefox by hanging
on to an earlier version which they have tagged IceWeasel.
It would be interesting to read the differences between FireFox/IceWeasel.
For the moment, I like the Debian business plan for me.
On 4/25/2014 10:46 AM, highskywhy@yahoo.de wrote:
>
> I am crying now
> because Iceweasel was so good.
--
John Ferrell W8CCW
"Kindness is the language the blind can see and the
deaf can hear." - Mark Twain
Debian is a conservative product. The latest distro is not a work in
process, every effort is made to make it ready to work without
unpleasant surprises.
Ubuntu takes a more aggressive stance with its product. They want the
latest and greatest NOW! They are good at avoiding most disasters with
their testing but they intend to be on the cutting edge of performance,
features and bling.
It seems there are some "innovations" in Firefox that concerns the
Debian folks. They choose to not endorse the current Firefox by hanging
on to an earlier version which they have tagged IceWeasel.
It would be interesting to read the differences between FireFox/IceWeasel.
For the moment, I like the Debian business plan for me.
On 4/25/2014 10:46 AM, highskywhy@yahoo.de wrote:
>
> I am crying now
> because Iceweasel was so good.
--
John Ferrell W8CCW
"Kindness is the language the blind can see and the
deaf can hear." - Mark Twain
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