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Record Low Turnout in Debian Leadership Election
daria42 writes "A record low voter turnout - highlighted by the fact that two-thirds of the candidates have not yet cast their ballot - is marring the Debian Project's ongoing elections for the Debian Project Leader position. Project secretary Manoj Srivastava said yesterday: "At the time of writing, half an hour into the second week of the vote, we have the lowest participation ever in a Debian project leader election seen so far"."
Maybe this is because most of Debian's userbase has gotten tired of the sickly release schedule and glitchy package management, and moved on to other distributions like Gentoo?
Aside from being very easy to keep up to date, Gentoo's documentation, organization, configuration file management, dependency/build management, package handlings, init scripts, and so forth are so much better than anything else out there right now, I don't know why anyone would want to use anything else.
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If they want high voter turnout, they need to put an ammendment on the ballot to ban gay packages.
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Our NOC and Monitoring Facility is built on Linux. Up until 2000 we ran RedHat and we switched to Debian based on the recommendation of one of our senior programmers. Two years ago we began switching to Gentoo and today all of our workstations, most laptops, most of our servers, and monitoring cluster nodes are all running Gentoo. We have a lot of machines deployed including a lot of compact flash based remote monitoring nodes which are also running a heavily modified Gentoo install.
Why? Because of the big Sendmail exploit in early of 2003. We happened to be playing with Gentoo at the time on one soon to be mailserver. Running Debian Stable on our other inbound MXs, we waited and waited and waited for patched Sendmail packages. After 3 days we compiled our own binaries and replaced the existing ones until finally a patched Sendmail entered the Debian Stable tree almost TWO WEEKS LATE. The Gentoo box I was playing with had an ebuild for the patched sendmail source within three hours. We started our conversion to Gentoo that day, and we dropped out of Debian completely (I no longer even participate in the newsgroups or Debian Planet) because it takes SO STINKING LONG FOR ANYTHING TO CHANGE.