Zenaan, if everybody would use Debian for development, than even the Debian community would have to suffer from slower progress. To develop, to report bugs to upstream etc. you often need an Linux userspace environment that is up-to-date, but even experimental isn't up-to-date. The policy that Debian isn't up-to-date, isn't in unison with upstream, has got advantages, but it not seldom is a serious drawback for developing, for continuing the evolution of Linux. There are hundreds of Linux distros with "social" and "libre" policies, this isn't exclusive for the distros you mentioned. Some people consider to get less binary packages, that use current stable releases from upstream instead of more binary packages that provide completely outdated packages, other users don't care about this. So when I mention something you call "politically correct" but without concentrated passion, you're mistaken. There's much concentrated passion in what I mentioned. Different distros and even different flavours of Ubuntu have different targets. For me something very important is the KISS principle, again, Debian is a good distro too, but IMO far away from KISS.
You're free to consider the distros you mentioned as the best distros, but by doing this you miss a basic approach of FLOSS. There isn't such as a commercial competition, or radical political model. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1377600963.724.68.camel@archlinux