Take the tour ×  Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian. It uses the
same package format.  In what ways is Ubuntu different from
Debian?  share|improve this question add comment  5 Answers  up
vote 31 down vote accepted  So maybe its crazy for me to answer
this, having just joined Canonical 3 months ago (today!) and
having only run Ubuntu out of curiosity for the few years before
joining Canonical. It might even be silly for me to answer it,
given that I am on the server team, and Ubuntu definitely has a
very large focus on making "Linux for Humans", ergo, the
desktop.  To me, the release cycle is everything. Yes there are
some things that will never go back to Debian, because these
things are somewhat counter to Debian's philosophies. But these
are by-products of the greater goal of usability.  When Ubuntu
was started, the idea was simple. Debian was awesome then, and
is still awesome today. I ran it exclusively for several years
and it served me well on laptops, desktops, and especially on
servers, being a server