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[Manish Sinha <manishsinha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone, I have thought, researched a lot before shooting this
mail. It is a proposal to make elementary a great OS, even better than
it is currently at the same time making sure the proposals are sane,
achievable and realistic.

Older packages when released
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At the moment luna is based on precise. It is a good thing because
Precise is LTS and supported for 5 years, but at the end of the day
when luna is released, it is based on 1.5 years old snapshot of ubuntu
plus some updates.

Why not base next elementary on say debian testing or unstable. Maybe
unstable is a bit too unstable, but testing should be fine. I am still
not sure if GNOME would be vanilla or not, but atleast it won't be
containing a lot of patches and radically different components than
GNOME.

This is just a suggestion. I would like to hear from people who
maintain the archives and system architects. They would be knowing
what issues can be faced in case elementary moves away from ubuntu or
what can be even gained.

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Manish