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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. 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!

      ;)

  2. 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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  3. I wonder what would happen... by bahamat · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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

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

  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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?

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

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

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  9. 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. :)

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  10. 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...)

  11. 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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