Anthony Towns has done an interesting numerical comparative analysis of Debian sarge vs. Ubuntu hoary. "For a distribution that’s under a year old to be maintaining about a quarter of Debian’s packages seems pretty impressive." Well, you could say that. How many hackers does Canonical have working on Ubuntu again? A dozen? Two?
Archive for April, 2005
Ubuntu power
April 26, 2005“X Windows” information from Linspire
April 26, 2005Dan Stone has found a fascinating piece of information about the X Window System: "Linspire's page about X is the most factually incorrect thing ever." I'm trying to think about a competing page but it sure is damn hard.
Davix takes over
April 1, 2005Dave Jones has great news on this April 1st, announcing Davix, a free Linux-like kernel for those who "pine for the nice days of Linux-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers".
