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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. There's just a little confusion. by AtariAmarok · · Score: 0, Troll

    The ballots were printed with BSD instead of Debian by mistake. Only the dead are eligible for voting in those elections.

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  2. Re:linspire has them on the ropes by koreaman · · Score: 1, Troll

    what the fuck kind of troll is this? I've never even used Debian, but how can you consider a distro that runs you as root to be good? I also very much doubt it takes 2 days to install debian. Fuck, it doesn't even take that long to install Gentoo. What are you freaking smoking dude?

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  3. Re:One Meaning: by varmittang · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually, I like Debian, I just don't know any of the canidates because I never really payed that much attention to it. All I do is apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and thats all. Can I do that for this vote?

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  4. Will it be a dupe.. by StikyPad · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now that this has been posted to /., will it be a dupe when they post a new story in 5 minutes that says, "Debian leadership election receives highest turnout ever -- and Cowboy Neal wins!!"

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  5. Re:One Meaning: by lewp · · Score: 0, Troll

    And you sound like a 15 year old on IRC, "OMG YUO GuyZ SHOUL DUZE GENoOO IT IZ DA BOM".

    You think fighting with your OS's package manager is fun? Groovy. If installing linux-2.5.99-ac-XtReMe-leet-xfs-999 today because the linux-2.5.99-ac-XtReMe-leet-xfs-998 kernel you compiled yesterday "sux", then by all means go for it.

    There was a point when I was enamored with the freedom of Linux (and UNIX in general) and that stuff seemed reasonable to me, too. Now I'd rather have something that works, that's reliable, and is reasonably up to date so I can spend my time on more interesting problems.

    If that makes me an old coot, well, maybe someday I'll develop crippling ADHD and be "kewl" again.

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