[kwlug disc.] All of you Ubuntu people

[Unsolicited]

 >    Ubuntu is absorbing the Debian community

NOT.

Two different communities.

Debian will always be the low-level binary of Linux driving the world, 
from a group of 'free concerned' techies who deeply care about this stuff.

Ubuntu is the new face (distro) of the average user and will 
ultimately be the initial business class machine of joe user.

Debian, still forming the core of Ubuntu, will be the scientific / 
academic basis of institutional use. a la Windows XP today vs Unix. 
[Not to take away anything from BSD, other distros, and all other such 
good things. Just sort of lumping these all under a catch-all 'Debian' 
for the purposes of this message.]

 >    Ubuntu currently has the momentum of growth.

Once absorbing the first, this becomes 'not quite right'.

If you stay with apples, then it is probably true to say that, but not 
against Debian - against OpenSuSe, SuSe, Fedora, Red Hat, and every 
other graphical distro intended to make life easy for new users.

Or so I suspect.


Which is all separate from the groups who want neither - BSD, Gentoo, 
Slackware, embedded, and who knows what all else.

What I would like to see more of though is these bases being more 
prevalent in everything else, such as phones, stereos, TVs, toasters, 
and the like. Sort of like TCP/IP has taken over much of the world, 
but not all of it, and GNU/Linux still hasn't that level of 
penetration. Unfortunately.


Rick wrote, On 2/10/2007 2:48 PM:
> Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-kwlug at benshaw.com> writes:
>> Ubuntu has quite a support network.
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> Ok, with your information and my investigations,
> I have shifted my position enough to venture
> more (possibly ill-fated) hypotheses:
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>    Ubuntu is absorbing the Debian community
>      and becoming the natural successor to Debian.
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> (Sort of like the shift of power from the British Empire to the US.)