Debian Turning 10

Rubbersoul writes "On August 16th, the Debian Project will celebrate its 10th birthday. Check debCONF for the birthday party nearest you!"

Comments

Debian's greatest achievement?

[Urkki]

Is that apt-get?

I mean, same kind of system is now all over the place, in about every distro.
But did Debian "invent" it, or were they first to make the concept work in practice?

Then again, they are also responsible for dselect...

Re:Debian's greatest achievement?

[qtp]

Perhaps from an activist's point of view, you are correct.

From a user's point of view, Debian's greatest achievement is having an "unstable" branch that is as stable as some other dist's releases.

From a CS student's point of view, Debian's great achievement may be the package creation and management tools.

For socioligists, it may be the democratic nature of the project.

From a project managers point of view, it may be the fine example of how to establish a development policy.

For me, it's simply that I get to use an OS that does not suck.

Re:dselect

[Anonymous Coward]

I must admit I don't have the first clue how 'dselect' works

This presupposes that 'dselect' works. It doesn't. It is an entirely unusable monstrous piece of shit. I like Debian too, but only came to like it when someone told me to use 'apt' exclusively for package management.

Debian superiority

[mirko]

What makes Debian greater than SuSe, RedHat and others is mostly the point it is *not* commercial.
I mean : we're not even sure RedHat will still be there in a few years but we know that if in 10 years, we perform an :
apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
our system will be updated...
This might however be the case with other systems but I doubt that satisfied Debian pioneers actually switched.
I guess the Gentoo-ers are mostly former SuSe-ists or RedHat-ters