Happy Birthday, Debian!

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 16, 2012 @09:54AM from the impossibly-worthwhile dept.

An anonymous reader writes with word that as of today, the Debian project — one of the first distros, and still going strong, not to mention parent or grandparent of many other distros — is 19 years old. "Quoting from the official project history: 'The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time, the whole concept of a 'distribution' of Linux was new. Ian intended Debian to be a distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU.' Send an appreciation message: http://thanks.debian.net/."

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Re:Better than Arch? by colsandurz45 · 2012-08-16 11:11 · Score: -1, Troll

It doesn't sound like you really know how to use gentoo based on what you're saying. I've built KDE and a system from scratch and it doesn't take one day let alone three. Also, don't set USE flags system wid unless you know you want to, that's what /etc/portage/package.use is for. And by the way, there's no newuser switch, it's newuse, as in new use flag.
Don't bash it just because you can't take the time to read the handbook and figure out how to use it.
Gentoo's not for everyone, certainly not you.