What's all the hype over Ubuntu?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Bruce Byfield <bbyfield at axion.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 19:50 +0000, Ian Chapman wrote:
>
>  > But I
>  > must admit, I never really understood that viewpoint as yum has
>  > basically eliminated "dependency hell" and wondered what was magically
>  > different about deb.
>
>  The reason for the confusion is that the supposed superiority of .DEBs
>  wasn't just the software, but the strict packaging policies and testing
>  of Debian, which historically were far more rigid than most
>  distributions', no matter what package system they used. You can still
>  see the difference today if you compare Ubuntu to Debian; generally
>  speaking, Debian's packages in official releases still have far fewer
>  problems.
>
>  In my experience, Fedora packages fare reasonably well compared to
>  Debian's, especially since the merge of the Core and Extras
>  repositories. I would say that Debian has an edge over Fedora, but that
>  may reflect the bias inherent in the fact that I've used Debian much
>  longer than Fedora.


I think that's when the Fedora packing guys brought the build systems online.


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