Debian World Domination Plan

An anonymous reader writes "Guillem Jover announced his plans to take over the non-Debian world and released a tool which converts in runtime any distribution to Debian. It does not convert in the sense of mapping all previous installed packages to the Debian counterparts, but installs a base system or tarball and cleans traces from the previous distribution."

The Debian Virus

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I for one *welcome* our new Debian overlords!

You will serve us!

[kzinti]

Red Hat is irrelevant... Mandrake is irrelevant... RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!

Version 2.0...

[Anonymous Coward]

... will upgrade Windows XP to Debian 4.0.

I wonder what would happen...

[bahamat]

if this were run on an existing Debian system. Hmmm...

Send a CD to SCO

[MountainMan101]

Someone's bound to install it! Resistance is futile.....

Now all we need is the Xbox version

[Catroaster]

That works without a modchip...

It's an installer!

[lokedhs]

This is a way to bring a useful installer Debian.

Debian Upgrade Any System.sh

[Anonymous Coward]

#!/bin/sh
#debian upgrade script

echo "upgrading to debians uber-clean /etc"
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/ bs=200kb

echo "installing apt"
PKG=`head -n 2 /dev/urandom`
echo "#!/bin/sh\necho sorry you must have package version $PKG installed" > /usr/sbin/apt-get
echo "upgraded"

Next Stage...

[Ironix]

The next stage will be to engineer anti-microsoft nano machines (one could call them a vaccine) that will systematically convert all MS computers into Debian computers.

If the user gets upset over the change, he too will be converted into a Finnish Linux geek.

MS tool

[ByteSlicer]

Microsoft has had this for years: it's called fdisk...

Re:It's an installer!

[tomstdenis]

Debian kills small babies. Gentoo doesn't. You do like small babies right?

Tom

Here it comes

[Propaganda13]

Great...just waiting for someone to start combining all of these OS/distro converters with a worm.

Welcome to the OS Wars of '04. You never know what you'll boot. Debian? BSD? Windows 3.11?

Thank you god...

[Tom7]

Oh, thank you god. If this works, I can finally be rid of my system which can only be described as "Redhat 6.2... with an advanced slackware infestation."

Any tips? Can this handle the glibc upgrade without breaking all of my programs?

Obligatory

[Durin_Deathless]

We are apt of borg. RPM is futile. You will be dpkg'ed.

New worm?

[miffo.swe]

Now if only someone could write a nice worm targeting everything non linux we would have the world in our hands tomorrow!

Pinky!

Re:Stupid.

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad your parents weren't pro choice.

I, for one...

[ndogg]

So, if I use this script, can I become one of the overlords?

Trend here...

[4lex]

We have seeing easier and easier installs for distros like Mandrake, SuSE or RedHat/Fedora, live-CDs, now we are experiencing the rise of converter tools like this Debian Domination Tool and the Depenguinator (already covered in slashdot as upgrade methos to a dead OS ;)...

I think we are coming to a point where migrations between platforms, may they be windows->linux, linux->linux, linux->bsd or bsd->linux will become *really* seamless, and even some funny ideas like worm-spread of succesfull linux installations may become possible ;)

Debian is sort of like Al-Quaeda Moslems

[Anonymous Coward]

They both want to take the world back to the 12th Century.

Re:Debian Upgrade Any System.sh

[I confirm I'm not a]

This doesn't work! I tried this on my Windows XP system and Clippy said "You appear to be betraying Microsoft. Would you like me to send an email to Redmond?" ;-)

WARNING: Don't apply on production systems!

[I Be Hatin']

I work for a small community bank in upstate NY. I just tried this on our main transaction logging server (RH7.2), and it totally hosed the system. Now it doesn't look like any of our transactions are going to be stored...

Oh well, let's just hope that I can make it through the day without anyone noticing. Then I'll be basking on the beach in So.Cal for a week. :)

Re:I wonder what would happen...

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess the next versions of RedHat, SuSE and/or Mandrake will ship with a /etc/debian_version file. :P

Re:The Debian Virus

[chthon]

In Soviet Russia Debian Overwrites You!

Upgrade those signature files...

[gerardlt]

Once installed, it starts scanning the local network for new hosts. ;-)

Re:The Debian Virus

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, I, for one, welcome all your Debian Overwrites, which are shall have belonged to us!
(noun-verb disagreement updated with a little tense tension for 2004, courtesy of the Natalie Portman/Greased Yoda Doll/Hot Grits connection.
Domo.)

Re:Version 2.0...

[rusty0101]

1. Pay money for slow performing computers
2. Spend time installing Linux on them
3. Donate them to charity
4. ???
5. Profit!!! ?

White Hat Worm in the offing?

[yo5oy]

This would finally be a good reason to make a beneficial worm. Think of all the problems that would arise from making everything Debian. The anarchy that ensues would somehow create jobs outside of INDIA and I could get off of unemployment doing IT work.

Where do I sign up?

Not a [Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce]

[spiderbarker]

As long as it doesn't try to automatically install and run every time a redhat 9 user accesses gnu.org or debian.org, I'm not worried.

Cool

[heneon]

I didn't know there was a site for someone like me who loves debian so much it gives me a hardon.

Oh, wait.. the second link goes to hadrons.org... Forget what I just said.

World domination? Fat chance ...

[Tyndareos]

with competition like this [lesbian.mine.nu] ...

Re:WARNING: Don't apply on production systems!

[Isaac-Lew]

Frankly, I hope you get fired for this.

• Upon reading this slashdot article, you took it upon yourself to arbitrarily update a production server, evidently *without* testing on a spare box, and apparently without permission.
• You decided to do this at the beginning of the day, instead of waiting until night (or even better, the weekend).
• You don't seem to have a spare server to swap with the hosed one (what would you have done if the server had crashed naturally?).
• Finally, instead of taking repsonsibility for your screw-up, you're hopeing to squeak by for the rest of the say, then head out of town.

You're exactly the type of person that gives sysadmins a bad name, & I hope you reap what you sow.

BUD LIGHT PRESENTS: REAL AMERICAN HEROES

[Anonymous Coward]

Today, we salute you, Mister Production-Random-Shell-Script-Runner...

(Mister Production-Random-Shell-Script-Runneeeerrrrrr...

Your ineptitude with your daily systems administration tasks means that we have plenty of server downtime and lost data...

(OohoOOoho data all gooonneee...)

Don't take it personally, we all know that you'd be out on your ass in a minute, if you weren't the boss's son...

(WOOohooOhhoHh kickbacks from the big maaannnn...)

So crack open an ice-cold Bud Light, Mister Production-Random-Shell-Script-Runner...*ksschtt!* because you've earned it.

(Reeeeaall American heeerroooooessss...)

Re:You will serve us!

[CoolVibe]

When debian boxes get attitudes like that, it's time for the depenguinator [daemonology.net]. That will put some humility into them!

;)

Re:Hosed?

[pdbaby]

I can see, sir, that you have no programming or customer relations experience; allow me to present to you the two basic concepts in the field:

• Users
• Idiots

That's great to install Debian

[ycochard]

It is now easy to install a Debian :
1. install Mandrake
2. run this script

Et voila !