Debian World Domination Plan

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."

Comments

Re:It's an installer!

[tomstdenis]

Who says I use Gentoo?

Like the rest of the /. crowd I write comments based on pure conjured brainfarts that come out of the wind. Why RTFA, why AHSFE and certainly why PSFTIYP?

Tom

Re:Version 2.0...

[dendogg]

OR -www.Retrobox.com- They have deals that are even sweeter.

Re:MOD parent up...this is a riot...

[The Phantom Buffalo]

Wow, you truly are an asshole.

Bruce Perens and KDE

[Bob_Robertson]

It is interesting to note that Mr. Perens helped solidify the organizational structure of Debian over the course of years. For that I am grateful.

But there is something between him and KDE. After he left Debian, KDE was brought in and is now well supported and integrated within Debian. I very much like being able to run Qt and GTK applications seamlessly at the same time regardless of what the window manager is.

As titular head of this UserLinux thing, he comes out and declares that the desktop will be GNOME and only GNOME.

Yet, right there for everyone to see, is Debian with GNOME and KDE existing side by side without conflict.

I'm sure Mr. Perens has a good reason for his preference. I cannot imagine what it is.

Bob-

Here goes my karma but...

[forlornhope]

I am pro-life and it really irks me that you first of all call me anti-choice and second say Im about controling the lives and choices of women. So from here on out Im going to put things into perspective(I did this to my women's studies professor when she made the same mistake) and refer to your movement as ANTI-LIFE. Now Ill take on your other mistake. The anti-life movement tries to make abortion about women's rights. I believe its more about the three persons involved and thats why I am pro-life. The three people are obviously the Mother, the Father, and the Child. ALl there have rights and responsibilities in this and choices in this situation. First the child has the right to live. Some may say that the child is just a featus and there fore is not a person. Studies have proven that babies are concious and have thought processes while still in the womb and that conciousness makes that featus a human being and there for has a right to live. Next lets examine the Father and Mother together. As another poster has already pointed out they descided to have sex(Im not going to examine the issue of rape because I see that as a seperate issue and my beliefs there very slightly in that I believe the rapist should be castrated and be made to pay reparations to the victim and Im not sure where I stand on abortion there). I am not some virginial hermit who has never had sex. Everytime I have sex with a woman I make a concious choice that I am willing to have the child with her and support her monitarily, phyisically, and emotionally through out the pregnancy and examine our options together as to if we want to get married or give the baby up for adoption or share custody in some way. That is the problem with most people and abortion. Abortion is simply a way out of a mistake that distroies a human life. Its not about choice. Both persons have already made the choice by having sex. BTW, I took womans studies because I am a big supporter of women's rights all over the world and I cant stand weak women and it sickens me to see women who let themselves be dominated. Fact of the matter is I saying that all pro-life advocates are against womens rights is just as bad as saying that all pro-choice advocates are against life. It is two sets of people seeing the same very grey issue from two differing view points. I dont personally think abortion needs to be outlawed. I think that sex education and the way sex is looked at in the US needs a reevaluation. Oh, and just for shits and giggles, my women's studies professor and I had a debate on the subject and in the end that was the conclusion we both came to. And just to bring it back on topic, Debian rules because its about many people of differing view points comming together to work on something they all agree is a good thing and finding common grounds and working out disagreements to the betterment of all. That is what made the US great at one time, but now its in decline because everyone is greedy and wants the biggest share of the pie.

Re:Here goes my karma but...

[forlornhope]

First, I was in a computer lab and was posting that about 5 minutes before my next class so I wasnt really to much into presentation, that means paragraphs, grammar, spelling, and restraint from the use of profanity.

Second, how about I come kill you or violate your rights in some other way and then when the government come to arrest me Ill just tell them to butt out because it is between you and me and they need to shut up and mind their own buisness.Sound crazy? Yup, but thats exactly what your saying. Governments were made to protect the weak and I cant think of many people much weaker than a child still in its mother's womb.

And I am anti-abortion(HA! maybe you should read my post) and as a member of that group I am in it for the RIGHTS of the unborn child. I have no more arrogance than someone who sees a murder in progress and attempts to stop it. I see abortion as murder.

And as for the parents, if you bothered to read my post then you would know my postion on them and how most people who get abortions(yes I know quite a few) see it as an easy way out of a mistake. Most rationalize it away as just a mistake and many of the girls who I know who have had abortions go into depression after the rationalization wears off and they realize that they murdered their own child.

Third, as for this post being off topic, check out the parent. I saw something that I believed to be untrue and pure propaganda and I felt I had to respond. And I will admit that I responded out of personal arrogance and not wanting the parent to go unchallenged. The fact of the matter is that both comments were offtopic but someone else brought it up and like I said I felt I had to respond.

And I do agree that slashdot would be a nicer place, but I didnt start it(childish sounding I know). So basically, get off your high horse and think about the crap your shoveling.

Re:Version 2.0...

[spir0]

I'll take all these PCs, install Linux and then donate them to churches and schools.

Schools I understand. But why churches? Most of them have more money than they'll ever admit to. And what are they going to use the computers for?? Emailing god?