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Bdale Garbee elected Debian Project Leader

Posted by michael on from the hardly-any-hanging-chad dept.

Daniel Stone writes "In results released by Project Secretary Manoj Srivastava today, Bdale Garbee was elected Project Leader ahead of Raphael Hertzog and Branden Robinson. Congratulations Bdale! And no CmdrTaco, the debs are not (quite) yet ready, but they *are* very close." The elections page has more information.

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  1. Re:Maybe Woody will be released soon... by Ed+Avis · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    As someone who knows nothing about Debian... perhaps they should use a different method for deciding their release schedule. OpenBSD has a regular release every six months, LaTeX every twelve months. Both of these have in common with Debian that they are a collection of packages from different sources. There's no way that Debian can plan and organize XFree86, Linux, gcc, Apache etc etc to all work to a single release cycle - they are completely out of phase with each other. Nothing wrong with that. But given this situation, the best release strategy is surely to pick an arbitrary date and go with whatever is available at that time. Debian does put a lot of effort into finishing each distribution once the deadline is known, but IMHO the release date should be known right from the start, as in 'it's always the fifteenth of August'.

    Or even every week - 'It's Friday, it's six o'clock, and it's Debian New Release Time!'. That might be taking it a bit far.

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    -- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
  2. Porky Pig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just tried this. After about the 8th time, I sounded just like Porky Pig.

  3. Names! by sean23007 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In results released by Project Secretary Manoj Srivastava today, Bdale Garbee was elected Project Leader ahead of Raphael Hertzog and Branden Robinson. Congratulations Bdale!

    Manoj Srivastava? Bdale Garbee? Raphael Hertzog? Those are some kind of names! Maybe when they went to the court to have their names changed from John Doe, the judge did not have the foresight to just give them each the one name they actually spelled out correctly: Max Power.

    Note to self: go to court today to have name changed. Any of the following will be acceptable: Hercules Rockefeller, Rembrandt Q. Einstein... and so on.

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    Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
  4. Re:Uhhhhhh.... by egreB · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fine. But how do you pronounce it?

    Bee-dale, I guess..

    Here in Norway, it's natural to pronounce Linux just the way it's supposed to. Maybe our "i" is a bit narrower than the native english one (like in the word "Interesting"). To pronounce Linux the way it should be according to english dictionary rules just sounds.. wrong (-8 I remember when I installed my first Linux distro (I beleive it was RedHat 4 or 5), and the sound configurator played a test, where Linux Torvalds stated how to pronounce the name of his OS.. I thought I would die from laughter. (-8

  5. Re:Democracy. by plank_like · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Perhaps I knew here: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=irony

  6. Re:Maybe Woody will be released soon... by Mr+Links · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Granted I can not resist apt-get update every few weeks but there is nothing stopping people installing from testing and then leaving it alone. Most people don't need the latest version of bash,one from a few months ago is fine for them.

  7. Re:Running Debian may be a bad idea altogether. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You're an obvious troll. You just took something and s/Linux/Debian/g-ed it. But I will give my rebuttal.
    ReiserFS is still in beta stage
    Not now it isn't.
    All the drawbacks of the ancient EXT2FS file system remain in EXT3FS,
    You call ext2 "ancient", and yet defend the BSD filesystem, UFS, which is several decades older.
    for the sake of 'forward- and backward compatibility'. This is interesting, considering that the DOS heritage in the Windows 9x/ME series was considered a very bad thing by the Debian community, even though it provided what could be called one of the best examples of compatibility, ever.
    You defend DOS and criticize its approach at the same time. By extension, you defend Linux and criticize it at the same time. Which side are you on?
    Instead, they have frequent "hardware problems".
    So Linux should be blamed for hardware that doesn't meet the spec? Hardware companies provide proprietary drivers that work around their own mistakes, but Linux kernel hackers can't afford to do that, nor is it easy for them to find other companies' undocumented faults.
    The system is a mix of features from all kinds of unices, but not one of them is implemented right. A Debian user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification.
    That may have been more accurate years ago, but these days GNU, and in particular glibc, is more reliable and standards compliant than most Unices out there. It supports most POSIX, BSD, SysV, and SuS functions. More than I can say about HP-UX, AIX, or Solaris. Or {Free|Net|Open}BSD.