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Debian And The Rise of Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the apt-get-reinvention dept.

There's an article in this month's LinMagAu that asks a question about how the rise of Linux will impact Debian and what that could mean. Good article, especially interesting if you have been a fan of Debian.

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  1. In the Tradition of Greenspun's Tenth by Adam+Warner · · Score: 3, Funny

    ``Any sufficiently complicated software distribution contains an ad hoc, informally specified bug-ridden implementation of half of Debian GNU/Linux.''

  2. Re:Linux reference system by chill · · Score: 3, Funny

    Debian as a reference platform? Sure, as soon as they get rid of .deb and start using .rpm packages. RedHat, RedFlag, SuSE, Mandrake use RPM, which constitutes the vast majority of non-uber-geek installs.

    That'll probably be about the time Steve Ballmer gets praised for his dancing abilities and Bill Gates extolls the virtues of the GPL -- with a straight face.

    Hint: "monkey boy" isn't considered praise.

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