-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Monday 19 March 2007 13:01, Raquel wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:44:38 -0400 >> >> "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Just saw this in the following piece: >>> http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/murdockint.html >>> >>> "Ubuntu has certainly raised the bar. They have had a tremendous >>> impact on the number of people worldwide using Debian (I do >>> consider Ubuntu to be Debian). ..." >>> >>> ->HS >> I consider my neighbor to be a fool. Does that mean he is? I don't >> believe his family and friends would agree. >> >> -- >> Raquel > > If you're a psychologist and have a lot of credentials to prove you know > what you're talking about when you call your neighbor a fool, then it > might. (Ignoring the psychological principal that often people call > others names they don't want to admit apply to themselves -- it's > called projection.) > > On the other hand, if someone is Ian Murdock and the "Ian" in his name > is where the last 3 letters in "DebIAN" come from, AND he just happens > to be the creator of the distro, then perhaps that means he has some > authority and knows what he's talking about.
Hal, If Ubuntu = Debian, then one could install Ubuntu packages on one's Debian system. They could install Debian packages on their Ubuntu. While some might work, the majority of them will not. Why not? Because Ubuntu is not Debian. They are similar, I'll give you that. Incently, that is the same reason that the developers of Ubuntu are so against Automatix. It installs Debian packages, and pulls a few tricks to get them to work. In the process, it makes dist-upgrades difficult for the developers to support. Maybe someone should think about making a Debian version of Automatix and that would help new users want to use Debian over Ubuntu. At least it would be using Debian packages on Debian, so it wouldn't be too hard to support. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF/6N5iXBCVWpc5J4RAgdkAJ9DiL0MJdekduKo02VKHooI+DpycACgpcUN sMPGa2VWd1cKOaELN+TSlH4= =D6Jt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
