Talking With Debian's Branden Robinson

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 5, 2005 @08:04AM from the open-source-is-made-of-people dept.

v.ciaglia writes to tell us that TuxJournal has a great interview with Branden Robinson, one of the Debian maintainers. The article has a nice mix of personal and Debian specific questions. From the interview: "My primary focus as Debian Project Leader has been to try to resolve some long-standing infrastructural issues that have been frustrating our developers and users. My emphasis has been on internal processes because, as I said above, I think we need to be prepared for more growth. I am very happy to speak at conferences and with the press about Debian, but fundamentally I think Debian sells itself. Because of that, I want to make sure that we're "ready to ship" -- ready to meet the demands of our users."

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Re:chkconfig vs update-rc.d by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-05 09:32 · Score: 3, Informative

"seasoned debian users" : no, n00bs : yes.

apt-get sysv-rc-conf
or
apt-get sysvconfig.

You even get the choice between 2 great apps.
Re:UBUNTU is debian done right. by abscondment · 2005-12-05 09:37 · Score: 4, Informative

Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, its success is contingent upon that of Debian. Ubuntu isn't a fork from Debian; according to one of the other responders, they pull new changes up from Debian every 6 months. According to Netcraft, Debian is the fastest growing distro:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/12/05/stron g_growth_for_debian.html

One can assume that Ubuntu, et al. are included in this statistic.