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Debian World Domination Plan

Posted by timothy on from the subtle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Guillem Jover announced his plans to take over the non-Debian world and released a tool which converts in runtime any distribution to Debian. It does not convert in the sense of mapping all previous installed packages to the Debian counterparts, but installs a base system or tarball and cleans traces from the previous distribution."

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  1. Re:Stupid. by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Instead of dropping their attitudes why can't they just drop dead? Use Gentoo instead.

    Debian is all about non-choice. Gentoo is about choice. You do support choice right?

    Tom

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  2. Re:Stupid. by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    You do support choice right?
    Not everyone is pro-choice. Just look at people like the Right Wing Conservatives, Microsoft, People Against Abortions, Ashcroft etc.

    *dons asbestos suit*
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  3. Re:You will serve us! by DetrimentalFiend · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Although it would be a big mess, I think it'd be entertaining if someone turned this into a worm that would automatically convert all the computers of the world--or at least RedHat and Mandrake. I wonder if another implication of this is that you could install Mandrake, get it configured with the nice installer, and then convert over to debian. I doubt it would be clean enough to be a real solution, but it'd be cool if it was.