On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:08:17AM -0700, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > > As far as Ubuntu not giving back to the community. I would say this is > false. Many times looking through Debian's PTS, I see bug reports and > patches submitted by Ubuntu users. The Ubuntu community also tries to get > packages in Debian where it fits Debian's model.
Ubuntu indeed contributes some bug fixes back (which is great). However, the number of Ubuntu-originated bug fixes is quite small considering its market share, and the number of big contributions is negligible. > I've worked with RHEL, CENTOS, etc and my biggest grip is there is no > structure. An RPM can choose to put things anywhere (/etc, /opt, /usr, /var, > etc). Debian has a strict file structure that every package must follow > (config in /etc, user modified data in /var/lib/, etc) for me it makes it > much easier to manage my servers because I can 'expect' a certain level of > uniformity. Debian's file structure is actually my biggest complaint. Most distributions try to follow the file locations from upstream. Debian seems to frequently mangle file locations, which makes it harder to follow documentation from upstream projects. Apache configuration files, for example, are completely mangled in Debian. My opinion is that it would have been better for Debian to work with Apache to address their concerns about the layout of the configuration files. I agree that FHS compliance is important, but I prefer the practice of working with upstream whenever possible. Frankly, I can't think of any major FHS violations in Fedora right now (other than polkit, which is being fixed). Uniformity within one distro is important, but uniformity between distributions is also important. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
