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Social Contract Amendment May Bump Sarge To 2005
An anonymous reader submits "Debian's Release Manager Anthony Towns announced that after the Grand Resolution to amend the Social Contract has been successful (it does not only apply to software any more), vital parts to modern Linux systems, such as important documentation, firmware needed for proper hardware support will have to be removed from the distribution before the next release. Moreover, the upcoming installer will need to be changed. He goes on to say that he does not expect this to happen by the end of this year which means that Sarge will not be released in 2004."
Which is better...
Sex with a mule
Sex with a mare
first, d'oh
You say self-important egomaniac like it's a bad thing. - Peter Dragon
I've been travelin the electric mile
Always getting bumped by social contracts.. its a shame really.
fscking hell. what will i do this year then?
btw, oh, FP!!
Didn't see that one coming!
you are a wilted piece of lettuce.
Oh come on, most of us do that. Two legged crippled horses are so much cheaper, since nobody can use them for anything else.
the mission to Mars?
no, that wasn't on-topic at all :P if you don't understand the topic, please moderate something else. k, thx.
they can't reproduce, so you don't need to wear a condom.
More than we can say for your gramar.
I installed debian, thinking the package system was good.
Upon doing and apt-get upgrade (using testing) something fucked up. It couldn't update postinst.config or some such shit. Apparently update-mime kept segfaulting. I tried every which way to remove/purge/reinstall/fix the package, but nothing worked. This meant that nothing could be installed using the package system. every time I apt-get installed something, it tried to install this package (tar), it failed, and the whole install failed. This shit is infuriating, even more than using windows.
I gave up and installed slackware. All is good now.
LOFL
As soon as I saw the Article, I was thinking "damn how many posts before a Gentoo user shows up and lets everyone know he runs it and how great it is. Then I saw the parent. I love slashdot.
Do not read this
Cut the pseudo-political bullshit, or die already. Nobody cares about this, you self-righteous elitist assholes.
> [...] (free vs. libre)
Just to be pedantic -- you mean "libre vs. gratis" -- the translation of "libre" into English is "free"; if you want to differentiate by using another language you need to use both of the distinct terms from that language (or in this case family of languages).