On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:14:42PM +0530, Rony wrote:
Debian is supposed to be the pillar, the foundation of Linux. It should not have installation bugs. I can understand advanced bugs that could not have been noticed before, but not simple ones. From what I have heard about Debian, a contributor is not accepted officially till atleast 5 or more years, in order to ensure that what is contributed is of the highest quality level. Debian does not release its distros as often as Ubuntu, in order to ensure more stability. A Debian distro should work out of the box without any setup issues.
About the contributor part, I refuse to agree. One need not be a Debian developer to contribute. You can contribute your packages if you manage to convince a Debian developer to upload the package on your behalf. The Debian developer checks the packages etc., so quality isn't a big problem. And, the credit and responsibility of maintaining the package goes to you, not the Debian developer who uploads it.
Also, I still believe that Debian distro with the old style setup install works as I expect it to. Only, people from other distributions don't associate themselves with that. For me, the procedure has always been install base from first CD using the text/curses based installer and point sources.list to the right server and get the necessary stuff. Of course, since Debian has been late into moving to the point and click installer system, it will take time. Only, it takes a bit longer for Debian... :-)
But one thing's for sure. There will always be people using Debian unstable + testing, since it works very well for them.
Kumar