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Bad data ?Bad data ?Posted Nov 11, 2008 17:10 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Bad data ? by ballombe Parent article: Debian Pure Blends
Hell ya.
64Studio kicks-ass and one of the MAJOR plus points for me is that they remain 100% compatible with Debian. This means that while 64Studio is a very small professional team they are able to constantly release a supportable product with a relatively high amount of good Q/A.
In other words they don't half-ass it like Ubuntu does and is able to avoid 'NIH' pitfalls and 'Reinventing the Wheel' traps that happens with things like Xandros, Ubuntu, and even Ubuntu studio. (Not that I think that Ubuntu folks are morons. They are very smart and do a good job, but IMO they have shot themselves in the foot with this one)
All the Debian A/V stuff benefits heavily from the old Demudi project, because that project remained compatible with Debian. It's packages that it created was easily absorbed back into Debian and thus Debian users and 64Studio were able to benefit from that heavily.
Oh, and Fedora/Redhat folks did not benefit in the same way from the Redmudi project...
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The ultimate lesson in all of this is that when people learn to get over themselves and base everything on the same core OS then you end up with a much better product in the long run.
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Who are thee and they? Posted Nov 11, 2008 18:56 UTC (Tue) by sladen (subscriber, #27402) [Link] By "They", are you referring the group of ~20 Debian Developers employed by Mr. Shuttleworth; or some other group of "They"?
Who are thee and they? Posted Nov 11, 2008 19:40 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Ya. When I said:
> They are very smart and do a good job, but IMO they have shot themselves in the foot with this one
I meant the folks that work for Canonical.
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