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    Which distro should Ubuntu be based on?

    It looks like Debian is dying and Ubuntu needs to choose another distro to become based on. So which do you want it to be?

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    Re: Which distro should Ubuntu be based on?

    This thread is made of fail and linux-watch faggotry.
    Debian is alive, my son. And will stay alive. And even if it died, Ubuntu would always be based on Debian, because Debian is made of win and geniusness.

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    Re: Which distro should Ubuntu be based on?

    i... don't think debian is going anywhere anytime soon...

    debian doesn't really have anything to aspire to be, which is what makes it so good. all it is trying to be a solid distro, not the desktop leader, nothing flashy. Is anyone really going to be miffed if Debian doesn't make it out on Dec. 4th? Or Jan 4th? Or really even Feb. 4th? I mean, Debian is a slow development distro, why the hurry? Yeah, they want to get Etch out, but I don't see how it's going to die anytime soon, especially since it's not in financial trouble and volunteers don't really seem to want to leave en mass.

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    Re: Which distro should Ubuntu be based on?

    debian is far too far up its own politics obsessed derrier to be going anywhere from here onwards.

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    Re: Which distro should Ubuntu be based on?

    If there is any distro that'll never die (not likely), it'll be Debian. Besides, pretty much every problem described in that article is solved by Ubuntu.
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    Re: Which distro should Ubuntu be based on?

    At the end of the day, Ubuntu doesn't depend on Debian.

    We may take patches from them, and send them back, but we're fine.
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    Re: Which distro should Ubuntu be based on?

    Quote Originally Posted by PriceChild View Post
    At the end of the day, Ubuntu doesn't depend on Debian.
    Doesn't Ubuntu start life as Debian Sid? I know this was the case in the past but maybe Ubuntu has grown past that point. Where did Edgy start?

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    Re: Which distro should Ubuntu be based on?

    Quote Originally Posted by PriceChild View Post
    At the end of the day, Ubuntu doesn't depend on Debian.

    We may take patches from them, and send them back, but we're fine.
    Except that Ubuntu is basically Debian unstable with polish...
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    Re: Which distro should Ubuntu be based on?

    This thread fails.

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    Re: Which distro should Ubuntu be based on?

    Debian has several advantages to offer. It has, generally, quite good quality; lots of packages; good dependency handling; debconf to set the configuration of the most important applications after install, and it advocates free software (although not everyone considers this last point as a plus). But there are also other nice distributions out there. Maybe you'd prefer to see Ubuntu based on some other disto?

    Slackware, for instance, is the oldest existing Linux distro. Slackware tries to modify the software it packages as little as possible.

    Gentoo has also lots and lots of packages and it can manage dependencies. And Gentoo is a non-commercial distro, just like Debian.

    Arch Linux is a smaller distro than Gentoo but it has a nice package management and it has binary packages that are optimized for newer hardware than Debian's or Ubuntu's packages.

    And there are the RPM distros -- SUSE, Mandriva, and Fedora. These have better GUI tools for system configuration than Debian. Newbies love GUI tools. And many application developers provide RPM packages that you can download directly from the developer's web site. The downside used to be (and it still is, as far as I know) that you need to download and burn the CDs for each new release. With a Debian-based system you can just do "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" and your system gets upgraded to the latest release.

    I just thought to ask if people here think that one of those distros (or maybe some other distro that I failed to mention) would make a better base for Ubuntu. I'm not saying that Ubuntu couldn't go its own way without Debian but it might just be easier if Ubuntu devs didn't need to start from scratch. They could build Ubuntu on some other distro and then just add the polish that users like.

    So what do you think? Which distro should Ubuntu be based on if not Debian?

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