[Nottingham] Debian vs Ubuntu

[Alan Pope]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:20:04AM -0700, James Dobson wrote:
> I understand it ubuntu is a derivative of debian thus
> it's entirely possible that they take the same deb
> pacakges and just repackage them...
> 

Ubuntu do align themselves to Debian Unstable periodically - around the time
of an Ubuntu release. They then move away from the debian release in a
different direction, with the aim to converge again at the next Ubuntu
release.

So there may be some differences between the release levels of individual
packages - and sometime major changes such as the transition to gcc4 or new
versions of libc. But on the whole from an operational point of view they're
very similar.

I run Ubuntu and Debian servers at home and treat them identically.

Cheers,
Al.