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Debian May 1 Release Delayed
andrew writes "Anthony Towns, Debian's Release Manager, posted this message regarding the status of the expected May 1st release of Woody made reference to in this slashdot story. In short, he says: "So, it's April 30th (for most of the planet, anyway), which probably means folks are beginning to get mildly curious about whether woody'll actually be ready for release tomorrow. The answer is a definite 'kind-of'. Which is to say, 'no'.""
Doh
If we only knew the answer. Then we could delay May 5th, and save the world from the rioting, shootings, and damage caused by out of control latinos on drugs and alcohol.
Obviously, it has been delayed to help disassociate the whole free software movement from the communist movement. As no doubt you will be aware, Microsoft and other people and companies have been equating the use of free software with communism in the popular press recently.
Imagine the bad PR that could have been caused when Joe Sixpack sees socialist uni students wearing Linux t-shirts (obtained for free from trade shows because they're all so poor) rioting and desecrating monuments to capitalism!!
It would set the movement back at least 10 years!!
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we only do that so all you dumb fatasses don't come and fuck up *bsd like you did to linux.
What's the point of having 50 karma if you can't burn it up with a Debian is dying post:
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Debian is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Debian community when IDC confirmed that Debian market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers> Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Debian has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Debian is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Debian's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Debian faces a bleak
future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Debian because Debian is dying. Things are looking very bad for Debian. As many of us are already aware, Debian continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Debian/HURD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Debian/HURD leader Assclown states that there are 7000 users of Debian/HURD. How many users of Debian/SPARC are there? Let's see. The number of Debian/HURD versus Debian/SPARC posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Debian/SPARC users. Debian/m68k posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Debian/SPARC posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Debian/m68k. A recent article put Debian/i386 at about 80 percent of the Debian market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Debian/i386 users. This is consistent with the number of Debian/i386 Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Debian/i386 went out of business and was taken over by who Progeny sell another troubled OS. Now Progeny is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Debian has steadily declined in market share. Debian is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Debian is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Debian continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Debian is dead.
Fact: Debian is dying
It doesn't really matter, as it's only functional on 4 of them to begin with anyway. PA-RISC? Ha.