[GLLUG] Ubuntu versus Debian (was: Re: GLLUG still alive?)

[Vincenzo Barranco]

Why would anyone use ScamBuntu when you have Debian ?

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 at 11:02, Tim Woodall via GLLUG <
gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2024, Alan Pope via GLLUG wrote:
>
> > It's not that they are holding back fixes to packages that were
> previously
> > available. They simply were not available. Ubuntu Pro is providing
> updates
> > to packages that previously were not in scope, and so didn't happen.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the amount of work to update packages and backport fixes
> far
> > exceeds the number of open source community members to maintain them.
> Same
> > as many open source projects these days.
> >
> > What's changed is Canonical are offering this (backporting selected
> fixes)
> > as a paid service to their enterprise customers. Supporting those paying
> > customers by backporting fixes they would never have had before.
> Canonical
> > is enabling customers to accelerate and focus development effort on
> > packages Canonical would previously not have touched. Like most software
> > companies, if you pay, you get attention. This isn't exactly new.
> >
> > They then make that paid work available for free to the Ubuntu community
> if
> > they enable Ubuntu Pro.
> >
>
> Isn't this the Freexian elts model for Debian?
>
> AFAIAA, anybody can get the fixed packages. (I haven't tried). The
> paying customers get to decide which packages get fixes.
>
> Tim.
>
>
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