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In fact, I just realised that I really like Ubuntu and would happily make a monthly donation to support it (and can afford to) but I've never seen anything that
by comice 14y ago
In fact, I just realised that I really like Ubuntu and would happily make a monthly donation to support it (and can afford to) but I've never seen anything that suggested I do so.
I can't find any hints on ubuntu.com on how to donate (though they have a shop, I don't want any "swag").
Shuttleworth has always said he wants to make it a viable business; perhaps he's worried people would donate instead of having their business buy support (or whatever). Hrm.
EDIT: I searched their site and found the donate page. It doesn't seem to be linked from anywhere; only discoverable by using search.
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/donate http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/donate
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- mariuz 14y agoThe better way is to contribute to the debian community http://www.debian.org/donations http://www.debian.org/donations
- tomrod 14y agoI've just found Debian breaks too much and is mostly deprecated, e.g. Python 2.4?
- ezyang 14y agoUbuntu is a Debian-based distribution, and receives many of its software updates from Debian.
- Thrymr 14y agoThat sounds like FUD. If you don't want it to break, use stable, which is currently at python 2.6.6: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=squeeze&searchon=names&keywords=python http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=squeeze&searchon... If you want up-to-date, use testing, which is at python 2.7.3: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezy&searchon=names&keywords=python http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezy&searchon=... They both have python3 versions available, too (3.1.3 and 3.2.3 respectively). There are legitimate complaints about Debian, but being stuck on python 2.4 is not one of them.
- tomrod 14y agoMy mistake. I installed Debian stable about 3 months ago, but Numpy was ridiculously out of date. I falsely remembered it being Python itself. Mea culpa.
- vacri 14y agoDebian Stable doesn't break - it is The Other Linux when it comes to servers. Debian Testing and Debian Unstable do occasionally break... but that's kind've in their names.
- jeltz 14y agoI have ran Debian Testing for a couple of years now and it has broke less for me than Ubuntu used to do. I am very impressed with the stability of something called Testing.
- comice 14y agodonate to both, though give Debian more because they don't have a Mark Shuttleworth :)