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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. Uhhhhhh.... by scaramush · · Score: 0, Troll



    Better call Pat Sajak...I think someone needs to buy a vowel.

    In other news, Boutros Boutros-Gahli will be running Red Hat....

    (or perhaps just a spell check? ;) )

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  2. Re:who would believe these names... by Ed+Avis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Clearly they were ranked according to the sillyness of their names.

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  3. Re:Already? by glwtta · · Score: 1, Troll

    whom. whom to elect.

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  4. Re:"About to release" by u01000101 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I dunno, but judging by this, it seems like you'd be better off with Mandrake if you want a Woody. :)

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  5. moderators on crack as usual... by Lethyos · · Score: 0, Troll

    how the fuck is this post a troll? it's actually pretty funny... if you've ever heard that old .au file that came with lots of linux distros for testing that your sound card worked (hello, my name is Linus Torvalds and i pronounce linux as linux)

    note to moderators.. if you are too stupid to get the fucking joke, don't mod someone down

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  6. Democracy. by plank_like · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is all well and good, but supposing his campaign was funded by an evil megalomaniac software magnet with dishonourable ambitions. Said person could then get their hands on the source code then we'd all be up up shit creek.