Its not about which distro is better. Its about original question put up by Mr. Rohan. Should make it a Debian + Ubuntu release party ? Or separate celebrate is good for both.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Gaurav Paliwal < gaurav.paliwal1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I think debates like which distro is good or which language is better > then others are not worthy enough to engage into. All these things vary > greatly based on individual. Every distro, every language and every IDE > has its own pros and cons and they are almost incomparable. > > With Regards, > Gaurav Paliwal > From: Sanjay Gupta > Sent: 04/29/2013 PM 05:00 > To: Sudhanwa Jogalekar; > ilugd-bounces+sanjaygupta.amritsar=gmail....@lists.linux-delhi.org; > Rohan Garg > Cc: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org; iitd...@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Debian Wheezy coming on 05.05.2013 > I think we should not forget our goals. How can we take the solutions > to the masses when we cannot resolve our differences within our home. > They are still 97% of desktop market. > Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa....@gmail.com> > Sender: ilugd-bounces+sanjaygupta.amritsar=gmail....@lists.linux-delhi.org > Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:34:09 > To: Rohan Garg<rohang...@ubuntu.com> > Cc: <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org>; <iitd...@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Debian Wheezy coming on 05.05.2013 > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Rohan Garg <rohang...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > Hi Parin > > > >> Sorry Rohan but these days Ubuntu is a different story, especially for > >> the past few years, the project is going a different way. > >> > >> IMHO, in a quest to replace Windows it has gone the Windows way by > >> introducing malicious features like Spyware[1] in it. > >> > > > > Whoa, let me just stop you right there for a moment. Ubuntu is the > > name of the whole project but also the name of some products/flavors . > > So this is clearly aimed towards a particular flavor. Just wanted to > > clarify that before proceeding. > > > >> So personally I don't use it or recommend it to anyone, moreover for me > >> Debian Release party was more of community event, to celebrate the > >> release of a universal GNU/Linux OS which has been there for a long > >> time, almost 20 years, with most of things taken care by volunteers > >> while Ubuntu is more of the Canonical thing now. So IMHO I don't think > >> we can have a release party together, for them. > >> > > > > I strongly disagree with the statement that Ubuntu is merely `a > > Canonical thing now`. There are various flavors of Ubuntu like Kubuntu > > / Xubuntu / Lubuntu which have a strong community side attached to it. > > I find it offensive that you chastise the entire community for the > > actions of a company that is just one aspect of the whole Ubuntu > > ecosystem. Not taking sides, but Canonical provides alot of tools, > > infrastructure and manpower that allows all these flavors to come to > > fruition. Not to mention that alot of foundations work done in Ubuntu > > finds its way back into Debian. > > > >> Don't want to start a Debian v/s Ubuntu debate, here because IMHO they > >> are incomparable, with the kind of purposes for which they are > developed. > >> > > > > Neither do I, everyone is entitled to their opinions, however, it > > seems to me you have a very limited view of what Ubuntu is. Now that > > I've (hopefully) widened your view a bit, would you still be open to > > the idea of having a Ubuntu + Debian release party? I strongly believe > > that both Ubuntu and Debian need each other in order to survive and > > that there should be more friendly relationships between the two. > > Debian will not need Ubuntu to survive but Ubuntu will always need Debian. > > -Sudhanwa > > > ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! > President, Wikimedia India www.wikimedia.in > web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in > Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > -- ♫ "You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
