{"id":135,"date":"2009-04-13T22:32:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T19:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2009-04-13T22:32:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T19:32:59","slug":"long-live-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/2009\/04\/long-live-debian\/","title":{"rendered":"Long live Debian!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Lenny release, nobody can say that Lenny is not a rock-solid OS. Furthermore, nobody can say that <em>sid<\/em>(unstable) is not bleeding edge enough. Especially after kde4.2 <a href=\"http:\/\/ekaia.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/kde-42-in-unstable-is-coming\/\">made it<\/a> into sid. The kde4.2 upgrade process succeeded smoothly on my place. I've also \"upgraded\" my Lenovo X61 laptop from Ubuntu to Debian sid with a surprising success. I really feel better now, with Debian.<\/p>\n<p>Still, when trying to convince people why Debian is superior than Ubuntu, it's hard to find the rational reasons. After all, Ubuntu is a Debian with more money and a larger community. After some thought, I've caught two possible reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Expert community:<\/strong> the average debian bug report is much more professional than an ubuntu bug, which is sometimes just a mess made of dozens of people <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/xorg\/+bug\/195982\">saying \"ohh it also happens to me!! please fixxx!\"<\/a>. In other words, Debian users seem to be more tech savvis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>KDE <\/strong>is quite a stranger in ubuntu. Kubuntu is quite uncommon<strong>, <\/strong>which makes it a little less intensively developed. In Debian there's no such partition. Debian is KDE as much as it's GNOME. I like KDE, so it feels more native to use Debian.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What do you think, why is Debian superior in your opinion? (or is it not..)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Lenny release, nobody can say that Lenny is not a rock-solid OS. Furthermore, nobody can say that sid(unstable) is not bleeding edge enough. Especially after kde4.2 made it into sid. The kde4.2 upgrade process succeeded smoothly on my place. I&#8217;ve also &#8220;upgraded&#8221; my Lenovo X61 laptop from Ubuntu to Debian sid with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75],"tags":[32,198,203,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}