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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. The Debian Virus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Well, I for one *welcome* our new Debian overlords!

    1. Re:The Debian Virus by chthon · · Score: 1, Funny

      In Soviet Russia Debian Overwrites You!

    2. Re:The Debian Virus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      In Soviet Russia, I, for one, welcome all your Debian Overwrites, which are shall have belonged to us!
      (noun-verb disagreement updated with a little tense tension for 2004, courtesy of the Natalie Portman/Greased Yoda Doll/Hot Grits connection.
      Domo.)

  2. You will serve us! by kzinti · · Score: 5, Funny

    Red Hat is irrelevant... Mandrake is irrelevant... RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!

    1. Re:You will serve us! by CoolVibe · · Score: 3, Funny
      When debian boxes get attitudes like that, it's time for the depenguinator. That will put some humility into them!

      ;)

  3. Version 2.0... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... will upgrade Windows XP to Debian 4.0.

    1. Re:Version 2.0... by rusty0101 · · Score: 4, Funny

      1. Pay money for slow performing computers
      2. Spend time installing Linux on them
      3. Donate them to charity
      4. ???
      5. Profit!!! ?

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      You never know...
  4. I wonder what would happen... by bahamat · · Score: 3, Funny

    if this were run on an existing Debian system. Hmmm...

    1. Re:I wonder what would happen... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I guess the next versions of RedHat, SuSE and/or Mandrake will ship with a /etc/debian_version file. :P

  5. Send a CD to SCO by MountainMan101 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone's bound to install it! Resistance is futile.....

  6. Now all we need is the Xbox version by Catroaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    That works without a modchip...

  7. It's an installer! by lokedhs · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is a way to bring a useful installer Debian.

    1. Re:It's an installer! by tomstdenis · · Score: 4, Funny

      Debian kills small babies. Gentoo doesn't. You do like small babies right?

      Tom

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      Someday, I'll have a real sig.
  8. Debian Upgrade Any System.sh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    #!/bin/sh
    #debian upgrade script

    echo "upgrading to debians uber-clean /etc"
    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/ bs=200kb

    echo "installing apt"
    PKG=`head -n 2 /dev/urandom`
    echo "#!/bin/sh\necho sorry you must have package version $PKG installed" > /usr/sbin/apt-get
    echo "upgraded"
    1. Re:Debian Upgrade Any System.sh by I+confirm+I'm+not+a · · Score: 3, Funny

      This doesn't work! I tried this on my Windows XP system and Clippy said "You appear to be betraying Microsoft. Would you like me to send an email to Redmond?" ;-)

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      This is where the serious fun begins.
  9. Next Stage... by Ironix · · Score: 2, Funny


    The next stage will be to engineer anti-microsoft nano machines (one could call them a vaccine) that will systematically convert all MS computers into Debian computers.

    If the user gets upset over the change, he too will be converted into a Finnish Linux geek.

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    Still #1 -- Lonely Gay Geek
  10. MS tool by ByteSlicer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft has had this for years: it's called fdisk...

  11. Here it comes by Propaganda13 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great...just waiting for someone to start combining all of these OS/distro converters with a worm.

    Welcome to the OS Wars of '04. You never know what you'll boot. Debian? BSD? Windows 3.11?

  12. Thank you god... by Tom7 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh, thank you god. If this works, I can finally be rid of my system which can only be described as "Redhat 6.2... with an advanced slackware infestation."

    Any tips? Can this handle the glibc upgrade without breaking all of my programs?

  13. Obligatory by Durin_Deathless · · Score: 5, Funny

    We are apt of borg. RPM is futile. You will be dpkg'ed.

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    You should use AdiumX on your Mac.
  14. New worm? by miffo.swe · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now if only someone could write a nice worm targeting everything non linux we would have the world in our hands tomorrow!

    Pinky!

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    HTTP/1.1 400
  15. Re:Stupid. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Too bad your parents weren't pro choice.

  16. I, for one... by ndogg · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, if I use this script, can I become one of the overlords?

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    // file: mice.h
    #include "frickin_lasers.h"
  17. Trend here... by 4lex · · Score: 1, Funny

    We have seeing easier and easier installs for distros like Mandrake, SuSE or RedHat/Fedora, live-CDs, now we are experiencing the rise of converter tools like this Debian Domination Tool and the Depenguinator (already covered in slashdot as upgrade methos to a dead OS ;)...

    I think we are coming to a point where migrations between platforms, may they be windows->linux, linux->linux, linux->bsd or bsd->linux will become *really* seamless, and even some funny ideas like worm-spread of succesfull linux installations may become possible ;)

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    My journal. Mainly about freedom.
  18. Debian is sort of like Al-Quaeda Moslems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They both want to take the world back to the 12th Century.

  19. WARNING: Don't apply on production systems! by I+Be+Hatin' · · Score: 5, Funny
    I work for a small community bank in upstate NY. I just tried this on our main transaction logging server (RH7.2), and it totally hosed the system. Now it doesn't look like any of our transactions are going to be stored...

    Oh well, let's just hope that I can make it through the day without anyone noticing. Then I'll be basking on the beach in So.Cal for a week. :)

    --
    I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
    1. Re:WARNING: Don't apply on production systems! by Isaac-Lew · · Score: 1, Funny
      Frankly, I hope you get fired for this.
      • Upon reading this slashdot article, you took it upon yourself to arbitrarily update a production server, evidently *without* testing on a spare box, and apparently without permission.
      • You decided to do this at the beginning of the day, instead of waiting until night (or even better, the weekend).
      • You don't seem to have a spare server to swap with the hosed one (what would you have done if the server had crashed naturally?).
      • Finally, instead of taking repsonsibility for your screw-up, you're hopeing to squeak by for the rest of the say, then head out of town.

      You're exactly the type of person that gives sysadmins a bad name, & I hope you reap what you sow.

  20. Upgrade those signature files... by gerardlt · · Score: 1, Funny

    Once installed, it starts scanning the local network for new hosts. ;-)

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    /* This sig is disabled. Press CTRL-W to enable. Thankyou */
  21. White Hat Worm in the offing? by yo5oy · · Score: 2, Funny

    This would finally be a good reason to make a beneficial worm. Think of all the problems that would arise from making everything Debian. The anarchy that ensues would somehow create jobs outside of INDIA and I could get off of unemployment doing IT work.

    Where do I sign up?

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    a slut did tulsa
  22. Not a [Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce] by spiderbarker · · Score: 2, Funny

    As long as it doesn't try to automatically install and run every time a redhat 9 user accesses gnu.org or debian.org, I'm not worried.

  23. Cool by heneon · · Score: 2, Funny
    I didn't know there was a site for someone like me who loves debian so much it gives me a hardon.

    Oh, wait.. the second link goes to hadrons.org... Forget what I just said.

  24. World domination? Fat chance ... by Tyndareos · · Score: 2, Funny

    with competition like this ...

  25. BUD LIGHT PRESENTS: REAL AMERICAN HEROES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Today, we salute you, Mister Production-Random-Shell-Script-Runner...

    (Mister Production-Random-Shell-Script-Runneeeerrrrrr...

    Your ineptitude with your daily systems administration tasks means that we have plenty of server downtime and lost data...

    (OohoOOoho data all gooonneee...)

    Don't take it personally, we all know that you'd be out on your ass in a minute, if you weren't the boss's son...

    (WOOohooOhhoHh kickbacks from the big maaannnn...)

    So crack open an ice-cold Bud Light, Mister Production-Random-Shell-Script-Runner...*ksschtt!* because you've earned it.

    (Reeeeaall American heeerroooooessss...)

  26. Re:Hosed? by pdbaby · · Score: 3, Funny
    I can see, sir, that you have no programming or customer relations experience; allow me to present to you the two basic concepts in the field:

    • Users
    • Idiots


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    Global symbol "$deity" requires explicit package name at line 2. - If only $scripture started "use strict;"
  27. That's great to install Debian by ycochard · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is now easy to install a Debian :
    1. install Mandrake
    2. run this script

    Et voila !