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The better way is to contribute to the debian community

http://www.debian.org/donations

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donate to both, though give Debian more because they don't have a Mark Shuttleworth :)

Mark Shuttleworth is a Debian Developer.

That's great, but pretty sure he didn't donate 10 million quid to the Debian foundation. We're talking financial support here.

I've just found Debian breaks too much and is mostly deprecated, e.g. Python 2.4?

Ubuntu is a Debian-based distribution, and receives many of its software updates from Debian.

That 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...

If you want up-to-date, use testing, which is at python 2.7.3:

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.

My 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 I installed Debian stable about 3 months ago, but Numpy was ridiculously out of date.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.

Debian 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.

I 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.

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