[skrubly]

Very interesting series of threads. I'm sad to see this happen. I switched to Debian from RH as my personal choice back at Potato and have used the live build a couple times that were a real help. Some of the thoughts I had while reading this were 'Wow, I never want to get involved with anything to do with package maintaining' and 'It seems like Ubuntu is pretty much just running the whole show now'. Maybe that's an oversimplification but I really don't like the entire direction that Ubuntu is going in which is why I stopped using it as my default desktop OS. Now I kind of feel like I don't have a 'home base' distro anymore. Sigh.