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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."

3 of 547 comments (clear)

  1. Nothing! by leo_llew · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the code:

    [...]
    if [ -e /etc/debian_version ]
    then
    if [ "$DISTRO" = unknown ]; then
    error 1 "You already have a Debian system"

    [...]

  2. Interesting, but not much to see by Sklivvz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, it's a simple 12KiB shell script, nothing much to see there. It's well written and it's a nice idea, though.
    I would wait a couple releases before using it in a real environment though... hotswapping releases is a very tricky matter, and can screw up majorly your computer, expecially if it's done via a script.

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  3. Re:Pfft by hypnotik · · Score: 5, Informative

    Speaking as a debian user for many years:

    They do have a stable, modern distribution. It's called "testing". The not-so modern "stable" distribution is a dream tho.. You could drive a 15 ton tank through it and it'd still stay up. I've been running it on server (in the wild) for more than 2 years now with nary a problem. It's easy to maintain and has everything I need no more than an apt-get away. No recompilation, no searching for dependencies.. unlike some other distributions I've used.

    I wish everything was that easy.

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