Ubuntu e Debian
Duas pessoas em dois dias consecutivos vieram me falar sobre Ubuntu, sabendo que eu gosto muito do Debian, e me pedindo opiniões sobre o assunto. Isso gerou uma vontade de procurar mais sobre o assunto, e achei um texto muito bom, para mim definitivo, do fundador do Ubuntu.
Um trecho:
” Many people have asked why I decided to build Ubuntu alongside, or on top of, Debian, rather than trying to get Debian to turn into a peak in its own right. The reason is simple - I believe that Debian’s breadth is too precious to compromise just because one person with resources cares a lot about a few specific use cases. We should not narrow the scope of Debian. The breadth of Debian, its diversity of packages and architectures, together with the social equality of all DD’s, is its greatest asset.”
E um comentário bem legal:
“Debian is like an open-ended largely undirected theoretical research group (think Bell Labs or SkunkWorks) … research for the sake of research, not necessarily with a tight focus on a deliverable for a specific customer, need, or usage.
Ubuntu, on the other hand, is like a product development or solutions developer group that takes the products of the efforts of the research group and hones, polishes, packages, and targets them for a tightly defined specific customer or need.”