In response to recent concerns expressed by Matthew Garret, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has written an insightful about the relationship between Ubuntu and Debian.

Debian Etch will be < http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1076 released > in December 2006. Etch is the first Debian release to include official AMD64 support. Other notable improvements include XOrg, GCC4, and Secure APT.