QUOTE(cocooh @ Feb 27 2011, 01:09 PM)
Things can went cold if they're ignorant
Its their decision and not decided by Ubuntu or Mint etc etc
If the worse comes , Ubuntu might wanna change its course ~ they might have a backup plan for everything

That's bullshit!! If you read the article properly, you'd realize that it was a play with words, meant to reinforce Debian's importance.
Seriously, Debian is not perfect, but if there ever was this hypothetical scenario where all Linux distros performed some sort of deathmatch, I'm pretty sure Debian, RedHat and Gentoo would be the last 3 men standing. The amount Debian contributes, the belligerent focus on stability and it's ability to run on so many architectures pretty much make Debian unique, and in some ways, peerless.
What most desktop users use is only a small bit of what Debian offers. Ubuntu devs are also Debian devs, some of them only part-time for Ubuntu and concentrate most of their efforts on Debian (remember, I'm talking about the actual devs from mailing lists and dev channels, not people you get empty rumors from on IRC or forums). Whether Ubuntu decides to go-solo in future is entirely up to them, but building a base as solid as Debian's will take a lot of time, and is probably an investment Ubuntu can't afford, despite the wealth of their founder.
Debian, Free-BSD, Open-BSD and Gentoo are the only distributions that have stayed on any of my boxes for extended periods throughout all these years. QNX is another one, but that's not open source. Others have come and gone.
Sure, nothing lasts forever, and Debian will probably die one day, but it'll probably get forked and return as something better.
Added on February 27, 2011, 2:52 pmQUOTE(scorps @ Feb 26 2011, 03:50 PM)
i need to use this command, i dont know why it can't work auto,
CODE
ifup eth1
my network manager also disappear .
Dunno about Network Manager (it's crap, imo, so I don't use it unless I need to connect to those USB-3G dongles)
So, is your problem solved or not? You're always like this. People take time to write possible solutions for you, but you don't reply with feedback and go off-tangent with a new question instead.
This post has been edited by G-17: Feb 27 2011, 03:06 PM