Maybe Debian’s problem is the gap between Debian Developers and users, and all the obstacles you need to pass in order to become a DD. There used to be a forum at, but it seems to be dead. IIRC, wasn’t started by Canonical or any core member of Ubuntu, but by some random Ubuntu user. I don’t think the lack of a web forum is Debian’s largest problem. Ubuntu would continue no matter what Canonical decides to do: – Debian is beeing 0wned because it lacks all of the above. – The secret of Ubuntus sucess is markting, smart package selection, great web framework. – Debian could 0wn, instead being 0wned by Ubuntu. – Ubuntu kicks ass, but Freedom is a price to high to pay. Would it be so hard to restructure the whole damn website and implement a forum? I’s outrageous how a project so relevant such as debian, that on top of all is a comunitary project and as sutch depends on a top notch web interface and information extchange among the various elementens of the said project, the comuniy, has been working for so long with sutch an indadequate and outdated back end. Shure Ubuntu has its credits to, the comunity is vibrant and well organized around a centralized oficial forum and compensive wiki.ĭebain’s single biggest problem is IMHO organic. I fear that the day will come when Debian is “dead” from the lack of userbase and a caring comunity, and if that day day actualy comes Canonical will have all the freedom in the world to turn Ubuntu into “Something Better” by forcing wierd-unholy-drm-eula like stuff down the Joe “Uncaring” User throat. Ubuntu on the other hand will be around for as long as there’s money to pay developers. It never crossed my mind before reading this guy’s blog entry (that i realy didn’t agree with anyway but that would be another post alltogether) of the implications of a user migrantion from Debian to Ubuntu, beacause Debian is a comunitary distro, without volunteer work it stagnates and “dies”. I haven’t actualy read the thing but I shure as hell dont like the idea of selling out Freedom for a buck, so to speek. You know, I think the question that’s yet to be awsered is if Canonical will be ditching the Debian Social Contract in the long run and turn Ubuntu into a commecial distro mutch like Red Hat. Ubuntu is not so much a fork of Debian as it is a fork of the Debian Project–a much more successful fork. Debian will never go away, but Ubuntu will drive the project. In the back of Mark’s mind, I think he expects that eventually, most of the contribution to Debian will come from Ubuntu. He knew that fixing the problems with Debian would pay off eventually. The only explanation is that, as a skilled investor, he saw tremendous value in Debian that wasn’t being realized effectively. I don’t think that he could have expected the kind of success that Ubuntu has had, and even still he doesn’t plan on seeing any net return on investment for several more years. Mark’s investment in Ubuntu had long odds at best. That’s where the money entered the equation. He realized that reforming the Debian project from the inside was futile, that a whole new project was necessary. When Mark took a look at the state of the Linux ecosystem, it was plainly obvious that Debian needed new leadership, a new release management procedure, and a vibrant community. Unfortunately, the project leadership, release management, and community has consistently prevented Debian from achieving its primary goal of being the universal Linux distribution. It was obvious, and it had been more quite some time:įor over a decade, Debian has been the most capable, extensive, and stable of the free Linux distributions. He didn’t need to spend money figuring out what people wanted.
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