Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! 225
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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."
So next year... (Score:2, Funny)
... Debian can fsck all it wants ;)
They grow up so fast (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Ubuntu this and Ubuntu that (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Ubuntu this and Ubuntu that (Score:1, Funny)
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
Re:Ubuntu this and Ubuntu that (Score:3, Funny)
Did you just pose a question as a premise?
Re:Almost (Score:2, Funny)
Better... Windows doesn't run Linux code right.
Re:Thank You for Debian (Score:1, Funny)
I am rather disappointed that I can't burst the floaty balloons by clicking on them. ;)
Re:Thank you (Score:4, Funny)
2003 called. It wants its dipshit back. It's sending a reply-paid time machine for you to get in.
Re:They grow up so fast (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thank You for Debian (Score:4, Funny)
That was the first thing I tried when I loaded the page.
Google (Score:5, Funny)
What, and no custom page from Google?
I feel unloved.
Re:They grow up so fast (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, and then we can share images of Debian all over the internet... no, wait....
This from a debian user (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Don't knock Ubuntu (Score:3, Funny)
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.
If they consider that, they'll consider anything. (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Thank you (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ubuntu this and Ubuntu that (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Re: Incredibly painful Ubuntu upgrades (Score:2, Funny)
Wow, at first I thought you were being sarcastic, but... now I'm not so sure.
Re:They grow up so fast (Score:3, Funny)
It's just that next year, Debian will be legal. :)
Hey, I can't wait that long! Gotta fsck it fairly regularly...
Whoa! (Score:2, Funny)