Health Check: Ubuntu and Debian's special relationship
Ubuntu is five years old. The release of Jaunty Jackalope coincided with the fifth anniversary of a meeting that Mark Shuttleworth called of a dozen or so Debian Developers in his London flat in April 2004 to map out his project to create a distribution that was capable of taking Linux to the masses. During the five years since that meeting Ubuntu has sprung from nothing to become the most popular Linux on the street.
There are good reasons for Ubuntu's success. Ubuntu is rooted in the GNU/Linux developer and user communities and is firmly based on Debian and the work of its world wide community of unpaid volunteers. The objective of the Ubuntu team was to create an uncomplicated entry level version of Linux that was easy to use, but didn't sacrifice the traditional virtues of flexibility and configurability.
The Joy of Sid
Shuttleworth was himself a Debian Developer and had been the maintainer of Debian's implementation of Apache. He had even considered standing for election as Debian leader as a means for pushing for more frequent releases of Debian. Not surprisingly the core development team of Ubuntu consisted of a number of Debian and ex-Debian Developers, and Ubuntu is based on a snapshot of the "unstable" tree of Debian, which is merged into Ubuntu's current code release every six months.
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