* Stephen John Smoogen:
My very hazy memory of UsrMove was that one of the arguments was
that
we were behind some other distros on this, and once again not "First".
Huh. That surprises me.
I think the issue is that many of us look at the GNU/Linux
ecosystem
in different ways. There is what is in existence now with the majority
of Linux being Android phones, and the majority of installed GNU/Linux
being old Debian releases running on lightbulbs and other embedded
hardware. However none of that is first, and being compliant with 10
year old software is easy.. just never fix anything. We are very much
not compliant with those.
Debian has those multi-arch paths, though. It really helps them with
qemu-user, and it also simplifies cross-toolchains because they can
use native libraries. I assume this makes Debian a much more
attractive target as a developer workstation for targets where you
can't build natively—but I could be mistaken.
There is the middle road, where you look and see a large number of
Ubuntu being used in the cloud or in containers or whatever the hyped
on technology of last month was. We are somewhat compliant with
these.. but not really.
I don't think there's a significant difference between Ubuntu and
Debian in these matters at present, just the usual version skew
between packages.