Debian: A Brief Retrospective

IanMurdock writes "This weekend, Debian turned 10. To mark the occasion, I've written a retrospective, published at LinuxPlanet. There's also a very nice piece, based in part on my early writings about Debian as well as the retrospective, at internetnews.com."

Comments

Woohoo!

[JoeLinux]

So, when do we throw a Debian party, have cake and ice cream, and play pin the tail on Bill Gates?

Re:Woohoo!

[Penguinshit]

The "Celebration" package is currently in the Planning tree undergoing development. Following some enhancements and critical bug fixes it will be released to the Decorating tree while the community decides on a proper color for the paper bunting, and whether to tape, tack, or nail it to the wall or ceiling. Only then will it be released to the Party tree.

It should be ready some time in 2008, at which point the "Ano-15" package will be in the Planning tree.

(and yes, I'm a die-hard Debian user)

Re:Woohoo!

[sharkey]

Actually, in a break from SOP, the "Celebration" package is starting out in Debian-stable. As the alcohol_imbibed patches are applied, it will be moved into the Debian-unstable, which is as it should be for a good party.

apt get retrospective

[Picass0]

I love apt get. It's always so much easier than reading the article.

Here's looking at you, kid

[flicken]

Thanks to the Debian team of programmers for a job well done. I've been using Debian for the past 4 years, and have found it to be an extremely easy to use distribution.

My hat is off to you, Ian Murdock.

Watch out for those teen years

[Anonymous Coward]

Pretty soon, Debian is going to want to drive, and of course, it'll want it's own car. Curfew? Good luck with that. And then, just when things seem to calm down, bam, you have to pay for college, or it knocks some girl up. It never ends.

Re:Watch out for those teen years

[Anonymous Coward]

Right... but Debian's female and only your daughter in law. So, pretty soon she's wearin' those tiny little micro ATX cases, a little bit of Mo/Bo hanging out the bottom, a couple BIG fans up front blowin' 24/7 that you cant stop thinking about . Damn...

Re:My favorite Debian moment

[Anonymous Coward]

Getting through the installer, I realized that Emacs was taking up too much of my diskspace. So hey, Debian has a great package manager right? So I try to remove the emacs package and see that half of debian seemed to depend on emacs. It wasn't long after that I switched to Red Hat.
You know: "Emacs? It's a nice OS, but i lacks a good text-editor!"? Anyway, Debian is just great. But I guess I don't have to tell you that - You hate it our you love it.

Me, me, me!

[tundog]

This weekend, Debian turned 10. To mark the occasion, I've written a retrospective, published at LinuxPlanet. There's also a very nice piece, based in part on my early writings about Debian as well as the retrospective, at internetnews.com."

Today I wrote a comment on Slashdot about the retrospective on Debian on LinuxPlanet.There's also a very nice comment, based in part on my early ideasfrom another slashdot story, it is, as well, retrospective.

Yeah, but....

[devphaeton]

This weekend I celebrated my birthday, and i had a white-frosted carrot cake with a red Debian Swirl on it.

39 candles.

29 for me, 10 for Debian.

w00h00!!

Fake!

[Anonymous Coward]

Come on, everyone can see that it's a fake capture. Here's the real one:

kirk@pooh:~$ apt-cache show emacs21 | grep Priority
Priority: optional
kirk@pooh:~$ sudo apt-get remove emacs21
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apel auctex bbdb eldav emacs21 gnus hyperlatex preview-latex psgml python-elisp tdtd tramp w3m-el
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 13 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 22.8GB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
kirk@pooh:~$

Me neither

[flicken]

But, here's my apt-get upgrade log from this morning, just in case...

# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
slashdot.org
1 packages to upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded
Need to get 15kiB of archives
After unpacking 10kiB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main slashdot.org 2.2.6-2 [15kB]
Fetched 15kB in 0s (100kB/s)
(Reading database ... 117894 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking slashdot.org (from .../slashdot.org_2.2.6-2_all.deb) ...
Setting up slashdot.org (2.2.6-2) ...
Unpacking moderation module...done.
Unpacking plus5funny module...done.

Re:Debian isn't the most GNU distribution.

[GammaTau]

Well, just to be fair, I'll quote the "GNU/LinEx Technical Specs":

GNU/LinEx is based on GNU/Debian, a Linux distribution that, thanks to its design, makes it easy to create other distributions that can inherit its advantages and get rid of some of its faults [...]

In other words, GNU/LinEx is a modified version of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. No, I don't even want to think what the proper name of the system should be if the GNU concept of proper credit is followed.