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I have spent a lot of time thinking and writing about the inefficiencies of the separate Ubuntu and Debian organization. I’ve also talked to enough Debian developers to be convinced that they generally agree with me. I feel quite confident that building “The Universal OS” is doable in the Debian team. They might [...]

There have been reports on the Linux newswires recently of dissatisfied Ubuntu users leaving for one reason or another. I’m not going to jump on that bandwagon here, but instead just point out that in any community, especially an immature one, this is bound to happen. My message is to those who are leaving [...]

I was honored to present my ideas about Ubuntu & Debian at Debconf 7, with a number of Ubuntu and Debian developers present, including Mark (first time I saw him in person) and DPL Sam Hocevar. There was no slide projector, so I had to read my slides, even though everyone says you shouldn’t [...]

Debian is the the quietest big Linux distro. I see hourly posts on Distrowatch, Slashdot and Digg about the latest builds of Ubuntu and SUSE, and even Mark Shuttleworth’s wearing of a KDE t-shirt is considered news. I presume that things are fine inside Debian and that no gnus is good gnus, but also [...]

Written May, 2006, updated May, 2007 in preparation for Debconf 7 Update 2: The slideshow and my thoughts on the subsequent discussion are available here.

Ubuntu is a very exciting distro, gaining critical mass, and demonstrating the possibilities for a powerful and simple Linux desktop. I can’t help spending time handicapping the top Linux [...]