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Debian: A Brief Retrospective

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-back-in-the-past dept.

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."

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  1. Woohoo! by JoeLinux · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:Woohoo! by Penguinshit · · Score: 5, Funny

      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)

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    2. Re:Woohoo! by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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  2. apt get retrospective by Picass0 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  3. Here's looking at you, kid by flicken · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

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  4. Watch out for those teen years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Watch out for those teen years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      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...

  5. Re:My favorite Debian moment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Me, me, me! by tundog · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  7. Yeah, but.... by devphaeton · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!!

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  8. Fake! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    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:~$