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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"."
MEPIS, Ubuntu, Xandros? All three are based on Debian and a bit easier to use.
When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ Try it, you'll like it. Much of Debian's developers are working on Ubuntu - you'll see them in Ubuntu's IRC channels, forums, mailing lists, etc.
Meldroc, Waster of Electrons
This vote is not open to the public -- just to Debian developers. So I am guessing they are all aware of the election.
Trust not a man who's rich in flax / His morals may be sadly lax
I care. So does anyone looking for a comprehensive and stable distribution of Linux!
I was trying to decide which distro to install for a friend's wife who, and I quote, wants "Linux on my computer because I'm sick of Windows crashing!" I was going to pick one of the more colorful and intuitive distros for her, even though I use Debian myself. Package management is obviously important. I'd like to direct her to RPMs or something rather than going over there to compile from source. Much had changed since I last looked a couple years ago:
1. SuSE: Gone and re-branded as Novel Linux Desktop. Now it's all tailored for business.
2. Mandrake: Used to be my second choice, but now you have to pay to get most of the enticing features included. Three CDs for free version, and six CDs for paid version.
3. Linspire: Free unless you want to use the built in package management system. Then you have to pay for it.
4. Red Hat: Gone. I hear Fedora Core is good. Nice that they gave us the free version, but it doesn't have near the support or attention that Red Hat does.
5. Slackware: Going strong. Great distro. Package management? Nope...
The truth is that Debian is still totally free and offers the strongest package management out there. Anyone who actually uses Linux, no matter what distro, understands that Debian is important.
Strange, there was a link to this article on the front page of /. about two weeks ago. To quote
That doesn't sound all tailored for business - not that it's not suitable for business, but SuSE Pro remains a fantastic all round distro, with a guaranteed two year shelf life and a huge selection of packagaes. Novell have a preview of what will be included in SuSE 9.3 hereIn-N-Out Buger's menu consists of *nothing* but burgers, fries, and shakes, all of the highest quality...
No. The goal of the Debian Project is to build an OS. It happens that the way their project works actually makes it great as a base for building other distros, but AFAIK that's not their stated goal (and it's not what their website says).
:).
If that's changed over the last few years, well, I've been away
Game... blouses.
only 199 of 960 active developers had voted -- well down on the 315 who had cast ballots at the same stage last year.
I agree, unfortunately. I've seen some packages that just have no business being released - the original packager threw something together in 10 minutes then went AWOL and ignored all the bug reports.
eg. Bug 280859. The packager forgot to package the runtime library FFS. 138 days old. Unfixed.
There's just no quality control on the packages, and that brings the whole distro down.
I had one instance where some clown had packaged a dev package so that it pulled in most of gnome 2. The library wasn't GUI related, the include files definately weren't GUI related... it was down to one optional binary that few people used anyway... I suggested weakening this to 'suggests' as it made the library essentially unusable to me (since to compile my app people would have had to install 50MB of junk) and just a got torrent of abuse back from the maintainer telling me I was 'stupid' for not having gnome (on my headless fileserver with no X).
Couple that with the X debacle (where debian is usually 6-12 months behind in releases, even in unstable) and I'm really looking for something better... unfortunately there are few other server distros out there (especially not using apt, which I wouldn't do without having tried others).
Thats:
;-)
apt-get install vote
Ya Gentoo freak!
Kind Regards
"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us w
A big part of the problem is that they guy that a *lot* of users and developers would like to see run didn't...Long live Overfiend.
What are you talking about? Branden's running.
Please, people: stop the panic. T'was only one year ago that Debian was the "fastest growing distribution"[1] according to the almighty Netcraft.
And all of a sudden it's dying?
Please....
Kind regards...
Maarten
[1] http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/01/28/debia n_fastest_growing_linux_distribution.html