Shuttleworth wants Debian/Ubuntu co-operation

Many Debian developers, one of the oldest of the Linux distributions, still have trouble dealing with Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distributions and also a Debian descendant. Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, recently tried to heal the breech, but it doesn’t seem to be taking.

The Debian/Ubuntu battles started almost as soon as it became clear that Ubuntu was winning the mass popularity that had always eluded Debian. The war of words had calmed down, but recently they’ve caught fire again. This time around the spark, from what I can see, was when the Debian community “decided to adopt a new policy of time-based development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle.”

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