Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30

Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30

Posted Mar 30, 2006 15:05 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)
In reply to: Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30 by xtifr
Parent article: Ubuntu 'Warty' to go unsupported on April 30

Well, you can call me stupid. Or you can call me incompetent. Or you say I don't learn from my mistakes. But misinformed is off the mark. I've done too many upgrades in a production environment for that. ;-)

Your points are well taken. But in the end it is actaully you who are missing the point of my post.

It is not my intent to start a big flame-war, or even a debate upon the matter.

It's just that there are so many short, misleading posts from Debian fans suggesting that Debian and Debian based distros are Nirvana. And if it gets said with enough frequency without being challenged, people actually start believing their own propaganda, and that's not good.

I make it a point to say something when I see short posts suggesting that Debian has no upgrade problems, or is the only distro that doesn't have dependency hell.

Please don't take this post as being in an argumentative tone, btw.

My main goal is to difuse misinformation, and not to trash Debian, which is an important component of our FL/OSS ecosystem.

And now, to change the subject slightly...

I've personally found it interesting watching the Debian project start to come to terms with the first really successful Debian based distro that is not Debian proper. Previously, the Debian project itself has always called the shots in the Debian province. Now we have top notch Debian based Distro who's creators have ideas of their own. And the Debian project has something that it has never had before: competition right in its own back yard. The good news is that I think they have mostly gotten through the denial phase.

And my God, look how long this post has grown! I'll stop now. ;-)

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