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Debian Project Nominations Opened
robstah writes "The Debian project have announced the opening of nominations for this year's Debian Project Leader (DPL) elections. The first nomination, that of Matthew Garrett (of Dasher fame) has also been announced on Debian Planet."
Get the tiny Debian
That was tried before. It didn't work out so well. The mailing list archives were deleted with a nice "fuck you all."
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
Debian Developers all have GPG keys that are signed by other Debian Developers, and are thus in the web of trust. The project would have no way of verifying that someone outside that web of trust even exists. Furthermore, their conduct within the project allows an easy reference point in choosing a candidate.
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
"Developers" really means "members of the Project". The term refers to the reality that Debian is a technical project and doesn't have a lot of need for people who can't do actual software development.
As for why only Project members can be the Project Leader, that's pretty common in organisations of all sorts.
"How can you claim that you are anti-crack, while still writing a window manager?" — Metacity README
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (a.k.a. woody) was released on 19th of July, 2002.
Don't let that stop you trolling, though.
deus does not exist but if he does
This is why linux isn't more accepted. I mean, why not support mp3 out of the box? People look at linux and say "it doesn't even PLAY MP3s!" Yes, yes, we all know you can just install mplayer or something like that but it's stupid.
OK, I'll bite. When you install Debian you have two independent choices to make: (1) do you want non-free packages? Y/N, and (2) do you want non-US packages? Y/N. There are tens of MP3 players in the standard place. The MP3 encoders are in the non-US section (which is transparent, once you select that you want non-US everything is just a one big respository) which you can use even in US. Yhe point is that you have an easy option to opt-out if you don't want to use any software that may be potentially illegal in the US. Every Debian version is divided between: base, non-free and non-US packages, plus a separate respository for fast security updates. Also, you can use any non-standard Debian respository of your choice, which will integrate with your apt-get just fine. There are a lot of packages to download. You can find such packages here.
Debian seems to get along just fine. The stable branch, by its definition, does not receive new versions of software once it is released. It only receives backported security patches.
Testing and unstable, on the other hand, are more current versions of software.
Debian's releases are always done when they're done. If you want sarge, install sarge -- I've been using it for many moons on production systems. The occasional breakage is still less than what some other distributions shove out the door in their production releases.
I seem to recall a breakage some time ago... think think think... it was a naming conflict between djbdns and the Courier MTA both wanting to install some support program or other. It was an easy enough fix. Other than that, I've had no trouble out of it in either server or workstation usage.
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Or a well-formed constitution: http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution
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