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Happy 17th Birthday, Debian!
An anonymous reader writes "Debian turns 17 today. Yes it has really come a long way from being Murdock's pet project back in 1993 to being the distribution on which the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, is now based."
... Debian can fsck all it wants ;)
When did having birthday parties for software programs become all the rage? It's almost as disturbing as how so many of these programs are now teenagers. Here's some of the drama we'll be able to look forward to over the next year:
- Internet Explorer will get its driver's license and crash its first car, because everyone knows how unstable it is.
- Debian will join the Army rather than go to college, as mandated by the Debian Constitution. And because it has no friends.
- OS X will pick a fight with Firefox on the elementary school playground after Firefox steals on WebKit's lunch money.
- Windows will be that creepy adult chaperone that hangs around at, like, every high school dance because it wants to be cool.
Okay lemme make sure I have this straight...
Premise 1:
Being a Debian user for 15 years I'm sad to see it relegated to being only identified in the mainstream as something that a dumbed-down desktop distro is based on.
Premise 2:
Anyone who feels that way doesn't understand open source.
Therefore:
I don't understand open source.
It's all crystal clear to me now. My eyes have been opened.
Just disrupt the deflector shield with a tachyon burst.
no that would be mandrivia or fedora
both the last time I tried (admittedly quite a while back) had broken rpm systems and GCC was borked, I couldnt imagine paying money for it
Did you just pose a question as a premise?
Just disrupt the deflector shield with a tachyon burst.
Better... Windows doesn't run Linux code right.
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I am rather disappointed that I can't burst the floaty balloons by clicking on them. ;)
2003 called. It wants its dipshit back. It's sending a reply-paid time machine for you to get in.
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That was the first thing I tried when I loaded the page.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
What, and no custom page from Google?
I feel unloved.
Men use Gentoo. REAL Men use Linux from scratch. REALLY REAL MEN, write their own OS.
Debian is for wussies. Ubuntu is for wussies who at least have the balls to admit they are wussies.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
I once had to patch the vfat file system driver in a development kernel so that I could save my History paper to disk and take it in to school because that was easier than getting my non-postscript printer to work. Screw printers.
MS would rather step over them all to where they estimate things will go rather than resign to being an late starting also-ran.
If those guys are all occupied with WebKit, it frees MS to do something bold.
No. My favourite distro is the best distro.
Sudheer Satyanarayana
www.techchorus.net
Dammit, you're supposed to keep arguing with me. Now what am I supposed to do with my Monday morning at work? Parse my syslogs?
Just disrupt the deflector shield with a tachyon burst.
Wow, at first I thought you were being sarcastic, but... now I'm not so sure.
So weird to hear "insensitive clod" used around here in a context where it's actually totally true...
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