[Gllug] Cost of RedHat vs Ubuntu desktop support

[John Edwards]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:48:00PM +0100, Hari Sekhon wrote:
> John Edwards wrote:
>> 1) You are running Ubuntu 8.10, and the LTS (Long Term Support)
>> release is 8.04. So it looks like either you installed the wrong
>> version, or someone has upgraded it.
>
> Oops, you're right, I think I changed the version at the developer's  
> request. 8.04 was so last week...

Surely that's an advertisement in favour of Ubuntu - the upgrade
is so smooth that you forget you've done it after a week.
;)


<snip>
>> 3) The debian_version file is included for compatibility with
>> *Debian* packages. Ubuntu 8.10 was released in October 2008,
>> and the Debian packages would be taken from testing or unstable,
>> which at the time was lenny and sid.
>>
>> If they used only used packages from Debian etch then the
>> distribution would *be* Debian etch and not Ubuntu.
>
> I very much dislike the idea of anything SID touching a server.

But don't packages in sid (aka unstable) go into testing after a
couple of weeks without problems, and then from testing into stable
when it is released?


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