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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. Sounds more like vandalism to me... by Gojira+Shipi-Taro · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It does not convert ... installed packages to the Debian counterparts, but installs a base system ... and cleans traces from the previous distribution."


    Debian's a fine distribution, but I doubt many people would take kindly to having this tool applied to a system that has been configured and running for any amount of time. If it's just going to install a base system, I'll just install a NEW system with Debian.

    Show me a tool that converts portage or rpm data and creates a working Debian equivalent and I'll be impressed.

    This doesnt accomplish anything more than wiping and starting over...
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    1. Re:Sounds more like vandalism to me... by torpor · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Point:

      a) You wouldn't run this script unless you wanted it to. Your comment is like saying, of a crowbar, that "people who have been living in a house for so long wouldn't want this crowbar used to demolish their house" ... well no, thats true ... "unless they wanted to demolish their house".

      b) Wiping and starting over, on a system that you've been running for a long time, doesn't help. Duh.

      This script is useful if:

      i) You have a running system, and don't want to change your system services setup (Apache config, for example), and
      ii) You -want- to, for some reason, convert to using Debian packages and management tools on your system, without interrupting too many of your existing running services.

      Yup, I can think of cases where I'd want to use this tool. I've got Server A which has stuff running on it, and I want to move to debians' pkg tools and libraries for managing the system... cool.

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  2. Re:How about a simple firewall instead by argent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How exactly is a box that has no ports listening for connections going to be attacked? Osmosis?

  3. Bias update time. by Balinares · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Debian used to snub KDE, alright. Thing is, they no longer do. So cut them some slack, who cares what they used to do and say as long as they've changed and improved. Don't blame the current distro for how it used to be managed.

    In fact, if Debian keeps improving that way, it may very well become a strong contender for the desktop, which would be a Really Good Thing. While we may be a much of geeks here on /., I found that as you mature, you eventually reach a point where you're tired of fiddling with stuff all day long, and end up only using stuff that Just Works the way YOU want. In that regard, Debian+KDE is pretty much a killer combo.

    (NB: Nope, I don't currently use Deb on my desktops, but if it keeps its current trend I may well switch eventually.)

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