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Happy Birthday Debian
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| August 16th, 1993 is the date when the Debian Project was officially founded.
| A new Linux distribution at a time when Linux distributions were scarce
| enough. A distribution that was open to every developer and user as far as
| contributions when was unique.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20064/1054/
Debian Turns 15 Years Old
http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/28150/news.htm
Ubuntu's Community Manager:
Balancing Respect and Diversity
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| Debian kicks arse. Ubuntu kicks arse. They just kick arse in slightly
| different ways with a strong connection. DebConf, my first one, demonstrated
| such arse kicking, and I look forward to continuing to work with our friends
| there.
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http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1239
Recent:
Deploying [Debian+] KDE to 52 million young people
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| By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be
| fully deployed and in active use.
|
| By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs
| serving some 52,000,000 students.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html
Debian looks to launch lenny in Sept.
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| The Debian project's maintainer, Luk Claes, announced in an email Saturday
| that he will freeze the "testing" or "Lenny" tree, in preparation for a new
| stable release of Debian Linux. On Claes's checklist for September
| 2008: "Release lenny!"
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2868263273.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Lucas Nussbaum: Ubuntu information on the Debian Package Tracking System and
the Developer Packages Overview
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| Users of Debian derivatives sometimes report bugs that are not reported in
| the Debian BTS, but that also affect Debian. It already happened a few times
| that looking at the Ubuntu bugs for my packages allowed me to fix an
| unreported bug in my Debian packages.
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http://swik.net/Ubuntu/Planet+Ubuntu/Lucas+Nussbaum+Ubuntu+information+on+the+Debian+Package+Tracking+System+and+the+Developer+Packages+Overview/b7i12
Shuttleworth Acknowledges Ubuntu’s Debt to Debian
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| Historically, Debian users have shown a fair amount of jealousy towards
| Ubuntu. Martin F. Krafft, aka madduck, a well-known Debian developer, summed
| the reasons for these feelings in his analysis piece Ubuntu and Debian in May
| 2006.
|
| According to Krafft, there are several major friction points between the two
| prominent Linux distributions. For example Debian “developers are largely
| unsatisfied with how Canonical/Ubuntu cooperates and ‘gives back’ to the
| Debian community. This, in turn, has lead to the “perception that
| Canonical/Ubuntu is taking advantage of Debian.”
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http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/shuttleworth-acknowledges-ubuntus-debt-to-debian/
Debian and Ubuntu
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| I really hope that this sheds some light on the dependency that Ubuntu has on
| Debian. And really, I would love to see some activism on the Ubuntu
| community’s side to give more back to the Debian project. The farther Debian
| goes, the better Ubuntu gets - they only stand to benefit.
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http://www.robertpeaslee.com/index.php/debian-and-ubuntu/
Ubuntu giving back to Debian: facts and numbers!
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| I’ve always been annoyed by the discussions about “is Ubuntu really giving
| back to Debian?”.
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http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=271
The Heron takes flight
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| We all owe a great deal to the team who make Debian’s “unstable” repository
| possible, and of course to the upstream projects from GNOME and KDE through
| to the Linux kernel. We hope you will be proud of the condition in which we
| have carried your excellent work through to the users of Ubuntu.
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http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/147
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