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Debian, Past Present & Future

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-spell-love-a-p-t dept.

solferino writes "Christoph Lameter, a major guru in the debian project, has put up a very well written talk that he gave earlier this week that addresses debian's past, present and future. He includes a good background history of the project, some interesting sets of figures and projections (30,000 packages by the end of 2004!), a good discussion of the pros/cons of source based distros and his ideas about a new package manager he is developing (uPM). In all a very good read, whether you are just now considering dipping a toe into the debian well-spring or have been drinking from the source for a long time already."

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  1. just what we need another package manager! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    There aren't enough already, really! They will go nicely with the fifteen different types of PIM's available. Also, since this is Debian (pronounced 'WANK'), don't forget to post 500 messages blithering over the fucking installer.

    This post was brought to you by the letter "W".
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        Reason: Asscan OSS programmers still haven't fixed the 'black bar' bug in Gnumeric pie graph rendering.

  2. Where the FUCK are the KDE3 debs??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How fucking LONG is this going to take, already??? When are you smug, self-satisfied FUCKING Debian project leaders going to get off the FUCKING dime and get KDE3 out the door? What the FUCK is WRONG WITH YOU???

    1. Re:Where the FUCK are the KDE3 debs??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      KDE3 is for cocksuckers, little and big alike. If you want a fancy desktop, you'd be better off with winXP Professional. If you aren't a bitch-loser, than you will stay away from both KDE and WinXP, and GNOME also.

      P.S. Linux is for little and big cum-guzzling lozers.

  3. Debian is so great! by lousyd · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    "Debian rocks because..."

    "Debian is so great because..."

    "Debian is just fantastic because..."

    "Debian does this right: ..."

    Gentoo

    -Todd

    --
    If aspiration is a virtue, achievement cannot be a vice.
  4. Debian users - try rpm by Nailer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Its the Linux packaging method, created by Red Hat. See http://www.rpm.org.

    Now if only Debian would start using it (and improving it in any area they see lacking) instead of supporting the LSB by turning packages into dumb archives with alien. ;)