Debian, Past Present & Future

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 27, 2002 @12:58AM 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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Re:30,000 pkgs by 2004? by dfeist · 2002-10-27 01:24 · Score: 5, Funny

640 are plenty for all, I thought...

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Short Fuses by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-27 01:38 · Score: 5, Funny

Debian developers are known to have strong convictions and it is easy to get into some old argument when the buttons of one group or another are pressed.

heh, I didn't know all /. posters were debian developers as well.
Extrapolation by arvindn · 2002-10-27 02:25 · Score: 4, Funny

Umm.. I'm not sure about this exponential extrapolation thingy. By the same logic, they would be supporting something like 120 architectures by 2006 :-)