As is plastered all over the Internet, Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron was recently released for the public to feast upon. I really don’t care about the release itself, but I *do* care about Mark Shuttleworth’s blog post regarding the release. Specifically:
We all owe a great deal to the team who make Debian’s “unstable” repository possible, and of course to the upstream projects from GNOME and KDE through to the Linux kernel.
Read the rest of it here.
I think Mark’s statement shows maturity in the Ubuntu project, and I respect him for showing the open source community some love.
I’m not affiliated with the Debian project in any official capacity (yet!), but I’m happy they are getting the credit they deserve. Kudos to the Debian team and every package maintainer - you don’t hear it enough, but there is a large percentage of the technically aware population that appreciates the work you do beyond measure.
SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says:
Finally Debian and the FOSS community gets the credit they duly deserve.
Now possibly the Ubuntu community will start giving more credit as well. Lets end these “Don’t Say Linux, Say Ubuntu” posts and focus on Linux again.
29 April 2008, 4:54 amdavidb says:
One thing I noticed in the latest version of Ubuntu: there’s a firefox bookmark under “Ubuntu and Free Software links” to “Debian (Ubuntu is based on Debian)” as well as various other links to free software projects. Hopefully that will encourage Ubuntu “power users” to explore Debian a bit.
I agree, it is nice to see the Debian community and other projects responsible for the success of Ubuntu get some credit.
30 April 2008, 11:04 am