Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release [LWN.net]

Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release

Posted May 11, 2005 15:45 UTC (Wed) by cantsin (guest, #4420)
Parent article: Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release

The agenda looks good for desktop users. But it is so ambitious in its scope that it makes Ubuntu fork further from Debian, probably also breaking some of Debian's policy.

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Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release

Posted May 11, 2005 17:34 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Then Debian will just need to figure out how to reverse the direction of flow. Debian is too slow-moving to be treated as upstream of Ubuntu; it's going to have to figure out how to manage being downstream as well.

As for policy: Debian's policies work very well in the server context, but are going to need work for the desktop. Ubuntu is doing that work, and Debian can learn from it, picking up the best ideas and leaving the rest.

Forking is OK if it's interwoven with re-merging.

Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release

Posted May 11, 2005 17:57 UTC (Wed) by josh_stern (guest, #4868) [Link] (2 responses)

I'm a long time Debian user who recently put Ubuntu Hoary on a laptop to take advantage of the quick install (ntfs resizing included, no need to install and then upgrade to unstable, etc). So far I'm liking Ubuntu a lot and the main thing I miss is an equivalent for the http://packages.debian.org web page. Would like to see Ubuntu make such a page as a future todo item.

Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release

Posted May 11, 2005 18:01 UTC (Wed) by metaur (guest, #13633) [Link] (1 responses)

There's already http://packages.ubuntu.com/ .

// Ulf Härnhammar

Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release

Posted May 11, 2005 19:13 UTC (Wed) by josh_stern (guest, #4868) [Link]

Thanks, that's a big help. I didn't find any link to that site from the Ubuntu homepage and hadn't thought to just try the analogy.

Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release

Posted May 11, 2005 18:46 UTC (Wed) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688) [Link]

What policies would it break?