[Ilugc] Re: [Ann] FossConf Chennai feb08 is on
- From: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
- Date: Thu Nov 8 12:22:33 2007
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I also find the larger number of packages integrated and tested
in a release more user friendly, and the fact that Sid has new
packages, and not old ones like Ubuntu releases do.
Ubuntu being more or less a debian clone, and largely using a common set of
packages and a similar packaging mechanism, I find that a bit strange.
Could you expand on that? Debian runs stable + testing + unstable, with
completely outdated packages in stable, while ubuntu has a six month release
cycle, more or less, and as far as I can see, a reasonable correspondence to
debian testing.
In fact, on a ubuntu box recently updated to the new version (gutsy) I get -
suresh@frodo 22:44:55 <~> $ cat /etc/debian_version
lenny/sid
Any criticism applied about "outdated packages" might well be applied to all
other debian versions other than unstable, come to think of it.
srs
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