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RE: I don't even have to read the article
by Eugenia on Sun 20th Oct 2002 17:55 UTC

>Debian is made by volenteers who do not care about endusers, they care about a great technical distrobution. then, you get distributors who want to make it enduser nice

Yes, but.
Times change. Even if Debian is about being a technical distro (whatever that means), and not an end-user one, it will still need to advance itself on several key points, to help its distributors catch up with other distros or OSes, easily. So, no matter if Debian is not for end users or not, advances should be made on all its levels, from time to time.
For example, if Debian existed 20 years ago, it wouldn't need most of the stuff it has today, but today, it does need them. In 5 years, it will also need more stuff than it needs today, in order to compete at least in the "technicalities" with other distros/OSes.
My question to you is this: what *new advancements* made to Debian the last 2-3 years that makes it able to compete or even blow-out other OS/distos? Are there any? If yes, which one?
This is an honest question, I am no Debian user, so I truly have this question.