Debian redefines itself with new release (Linux.com)

Debian redefines itself with new release (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 24, 2007 19:44 UTC (Tue) by johnwin (subscriber, #4711)
In reply to: Debian redefines itself with new release (Linux.com) by khim
Parent article: Debian redefines itself with new release (Linux.com)

> Don't get me wrong: Ubuntu is significally more polished then
> Debian, but it's still far from being the ideal distribution...

IME the opposite is true; Ubuntu is significantly *less* polished than Debian, at least than Debian Etch anyway.

I used Ubuntu for a while, when Etch was still a fair way from release and I wanted the newer desktop etc. I got those but I also got buggy packages, a kernel build process which produces an un-bootable kernel and other irritants. It's not that Ubuntu is bad, but it doesn't have that ultimate polish which Debian's pathological testing gives it.

As soon as I realised that Etch provided both a stable environment *and* all the new packages which I wanted I switched back.

Currently my wife's laptop still runs Ubuntu. It's a persistent slight irritant that it isn't so polished and reliable as Etch, but not quite enough to get me to upgrade it.

John

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