Why Debian Matters More Than Ever

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 10, 2011 @01:31PM from the secretly-replaced-these-folgers-crystals-with-debian dept.

Julie188 writes "If you look at the feature list for Debian 6, released on February 6, it's easy to be underwhelmed. This is especially true when measuring Debian against its offspring, like Ubuntu. Debian doesn't get much credit, and its become trendy for industry pundits to claim it's become irrelevant. But it's more relevant than ever. If you're using Ubuntu (or Linux Mint, or Mepis...), you're really using Debian with some enhancements. According to a presentation given recently by Debian Project Leader (DPL) Stefano Zacchiroli, only 7% of Ubuntu is directly derived from upstream projects, Canonical's projects, or other non-Debian sources. Of the rest, 74% of Ubuntu is rebuilt Debian packages, and 18% are patched and rebuilt Debian packages."

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Re:The Family Guy by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-10 14:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

My good sir/madam (but probably sir), wanting to as you say fuck your mother while rather disconcerting does not make a person gay.
Re:The Family Guy by bertoelcon · 2011-02-10 15:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It makes me laugh that all you nerds like The Family Guy but I've figured out why. You like The Family Guy because the fat father's chin looks like a nutsack and I know how much nerds like nutsacks on their chins. Stupid faggot motherfuckers.
Last time I checked your mother was all woman.

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