Where is Ubuntu

Where is Ubuntu

From my understanding of Ubuntu, via my son, an Ubuntu release is based on the then current snap shot of Debian Unstable. Obviously that is NOT Sarge.

The distribution consists of bug fixes and refinements to a more limited set of packages that are then released as an Ubuntu distribution.

Given this routine it is difficult to see Ubuntu matching the DCC core specifications. Moreover, beginning from a differing base set of code they would seem less useful in supporting commercial needs. Ubuntu role may well be to serve new, non-commercial users that wish to try Linux.

Perhaps the better approach to creating more <i>weight</i> to this coalition would be to entice Mandriva to reconsider its current base distribution. While I suspect Ubuntu may at the moment have more raw numbers and be more nearly associated with the Debian model, I think Mandriva has had some success in the government/commercial distribution model that could lend a bit more credibility to a DCC effort.