... In order to take advantage of the faster release cycle.Yes, that is honestly what they said.Ubuntu to Debian, for faster releases. See the excerpts on the Desktop Linux article to read it for yourself.Apparently these guys were relying on Ubuntu LTS (6.06), which was designed to be a Long Term Support release, which would receive security updates for several years. Then they were surprised that all it received was security updated.I can't say that I have a lot of confidence in a distribution that would make a mistake like that.And do they really think basing on Debian Stable will work out better for them?