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Record Low Turnout in Debian Leadership Election

Posted by samzenpus on from the rock-the-vote dept.

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"."

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  1. Much of the energy has gone to Ubuntu... by meldroc · · Score: 5, Informative
    Ubuntu's like Debian, except it has regular release cycles, up-to-date software and a thriving community. And it is based on Debian - so in effect it is Debian, only better.

    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.

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    Meldroc, Waster of Electrons
  2. Re:Maybe by gold23 · · Score: 4, Informative

    This vote is not open to the public -- just to Debian developers. So I am guessing they are all aware of the election.

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    Trust not a man who's rich in flax / His morals may be sadly lax
  3. Re:I know why... by Kimos · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. In-N-Out grows despite never-changing menu... by wernst · · Score: 4, Informative
    That's silly. Quality frequently lends itself to a good business model even without expansion.

    In-N-Out Buger's menu consists of *nothing* but burgers, fries, and shakes, all of the highest quality...

  5. Re:One Meaning: by lewp · · Score: 5, Informative

    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 :).

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    Game... blouses.
  6. Or, we could read the article... by Bonhamme+Richard · · Score: 5, Informative

    only 199 of 960 active developers had voted -- well down on the 315 who had cast ballots at the same stage last year.

  7. Um... by xeno-cat · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thats:

    apt-get install vote

    Ya Gentoo freak! ;-)

    Kind Regards

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    "A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us w
  8. Debian Fastest Growing by mverwijs · · Score: 5, Informative

    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