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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. My favorite Debian moment by maelstrom · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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    The more you know, the less you understand.
  2. NetBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The beacon of truth awaits you here

  3. Re:Debian is rapidly becoming obsolete by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    We'll both be modded down I'm sure. I'm never sure why Anti-Debian comments on /. are always modded down, its not an anti linux post. Infact you switched to gentoo. I'm sure that 99.5% of /. doesn't even use or tired to use debian. Anyway, I totally agree with you and gentoo is the best thing to come out of the linux community in a long time and the community support is way excellent.

  4. Re:my thoughts on Debian. by SnowDeath · · Score: 1, Troll

    Personally, I am very excited about where GNU/Linux is heading. Sure, I may not run RedHat anymore and have switched to Gentoo, but what excites me about myriads of people switching from Windows to Suse and Redhat or even Lindows is application availability!

    We now have Wolfenstein RtcW, Wolf:ET, NWN, and others all running natively in GNU/Linux. In 5 years time, even the Sims will come with a Linux client on install media.

    I don't care what distros people use, as long as they are on GNU/Linux. If 100,000 people decide to switch from MS to RedHat, that gives me more voice even though I am on Gentoo and gives those Debian freaks more power too ;)