2008/12/19 Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Praveen A pravi.a@gmail.com wrote:
Dude, you don't get it :-) Debian testing is frozen and only packages that *normally* go to unstable are those which are expected to be released with lenny. You won't get any newer kernels in unstable before lenny is out of the door.
You are explaining it to the wrong person. Please explain that to the people who say Ubuntu = Debian Unstable.
No. I was explaining to the right person, who did not do proper homework to understand why debian unstable did not have 2.6.27 kernel.
Ubnuntu = Debian Unstable - recompiled is true for majority (I believe it is close to 100%) for the universe component.
Ubuntu focus on about 1000 core components which includes linux, the kernel to maintain on its own and the rest depend on Debian.
"In universe you can find almost every piece of open source software, and software available under a variety of less open licences, all built automatically from a variety of public sources."
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components
And the major public source here is debian unstable repository which they fail to acknowledge.
- Praveen