Comments on: Don’t miss it http://ianmurdock.com/debian/dont-miss-it/ on emerging platforms and the power of aggregation and integration Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:28:31 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Keith Curtis http://ianmurdock.com/debian/dont-miss-it/comment-page-1/#comment-639 Keith Curtis Wed, 10 May 2006 08:50:48 +0000 http://ianmurdock.com/?p=329#comment-639 I think this is good news as well. I run Ubuntu, but would rather be running Debian. However, I don't run to run 2 year old code, no matter how stable. My concern is for Debian to increase their focus on the desktop. I see a lot of hardware, video card, power management, etc. bugs in the Ubuntu bug database (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs) and these bugs might exist in Debian but aren't known because Debian has a smaller number of desktop users. How can Debian fix bugs it has but doesn't know about? Ubuntu is buried in bugs and needs Debian's help. Ubuntu might plan on supporting Dapper for 5 years, but I think it has too many bugs (and the OSS world is moving too quickly) for anyone to really care. I think this is good news as well. I run Ubuntu, but would rather be running Debian. However, I don’t run to run 2 year old code, no matter how stable.

My concern is for Debian to increase their focus on the desktop. I see a lot of hardware, video card, power management, etc. bugs in the Ubuntu bug database (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs) and these bugs might exist in Debian but aren’t known because Debian has a smaller number of desktop users. How can Debian fix bugs it has but doesn’t know about?

Ubuntu is buried in bugs and needs Debian’s help. Ubuntu might plan on supporting Dapper for 5 years, but I think it has too many bugs (and the OSS world is moving too quickly) for anyone to really care.

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