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Ubuntu as a technological playground for DebianUbuntu as a technological playground for DebianPosted Nov 27, 2010 3:07 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Ubuntu as a technological playground for Debian by jrn Parent article: State of the Debian-Ubuntu relationship
> Ubuntus early chromium-browser package and PPA (by Fabien Tassin et al) worked out well for all, I think. The package couldnt be added to Debian so early for copyright reasons, and this early packaging provided an inspiration for the Debian packaging when it came.
Personally the PPA's are one of the major reasons I've switched from Debian to Ubuntu.
Plus Ubuntu's out of the box experience is massively better then Debian's. Even after putting significant work into getting things like PulseAudio working on my Debian laptop it was still not as good as what I got out of Ubuntu by default.
Ubuntu 10.10 is a huge improvement over something like 8.04...
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Ubuntu as a technological playground for Debian Posted Nov 27, 2010 15:06 UTC (Sat) by jrn (subscriber, #64214) [Link]
One of the reasons PPAs work out so well for cooperation is that the packages tend to install without trouble on Debian systems, too.
I like to think that the distinct out-of-box experiences do not put strain on the relationship and that, like RHEL and Fedora, the two projects are not aggressively competing against each other for users. Roughly speaking, Ubuntu has fewer accessible developers and more users; for those who might want to participate in development by bug reporting, the former would be more important, while for many other people network effects from the latter would be.
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