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Progeny Debian Release Candidate 1

Posted by michael on from the apt-get-goodness dept.

IanMurdock writes: "Progeny Debian Release Candidate 1 is available. Read the release information or go to the download pages."

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  1. TOY STORY!!! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4
    The Toy Story naming convention goes back to when Bruce Perens was head of the Debian Project...

    Bruce was the Systems Admin/Engineer for Pixar's network and RenderFarm (tm). Bruce went on to more SPI related stuff, and the ESR flamewars. Debian stuck with the cute release names.

    Sid - the horrible child who will blow your toys up - is the permanent name of the unstable package branch!

    Jeremiah

    Oh yeah, apt... Few team members agree on this one: A Package Tool/Advanced Package Tool/Aquisitive Package Tool. File this under FVWM.

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
    1. Re:TOY STORY!!! by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4
      I was never a sysadmin there. I was a systems programmer. My main projects were
      • The Pixar II Image Computer, for which I did a gate-array behavioral model used to verify a chip we were designing, some of the microcode, and all of the systems software.
      • The Iceman Imaging Language, for which I did the non-graphical part of the language design, the language internals, the framework for image processing in the second and subsequent rewrites, and the simpler 2-D processes like compositing and mathematical operators. Graphics and signal processing gurus did the more fancy imaging operators.
      • The port of the modeling software to Open GL.
      • Lived through at least 3 entirely different business plans, 4 rounds of layoffs, and 8 years in which we lost at least $40 Million. After all of that we finally made money.
      I spent 12 years there in all, after 6 years at the NYIT computer graphics lab and half a year doing radiology systems at Matrix Instruments. Much of my time at Pixar was fun, although there were some very stressful and frustrating years mixed in. I remain a systems programmer and never really got into graphics.

      Thanks

      Bruce

      --
      Bruce Perens.
  2. Re:A Commercial Version of Debian by Sneakums · · Score: 5
    The whole point of Debian is that it's not commercialized.

    Actually, the whole point of Debian is that it doesn't suck.

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    "Where, where is the town? Now, it's nothing but flowers!"

  3. Re:To be clear, by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5
    Again, given that the Progeny executive team currently has the two first Debian project leaders as Chairman and CEO, who also happen to be the Debian founder, the founder of SPI, the author of the DFSG, the chance of alienation or "taking advantage" is rather low.

    Thanks

    Bruce

    --
    Bruce Perens.
  4. Re:To be clear, by BlowCat · · Score: 4
    Well, if Progeny is not Debian, why does it have Debian in its name?

    If you expect that people will be blamed for asking support for Progeny in the Debian lists, let's open them their eyes now and tell them that what they are buying is not what they might think it is?