__/ [ [H]omer ] on Sunday 24 September 2006 02:50 \__
> ed wrote:
>> "For a while, Debian was the community Linux darling. In its heyday,
>> Debian was known for its strong moral point of view and its outstanding
>> code. Numerous important distributions, such as Linspire, Knoppix, and
>> today's most popular distribution, Ubuntu, have sprung from it. Things
>> have changed."
>>
>> Pisses me off when people say such things.
>
> Don't sweat it. Debian, Slackware and Red Hat/Fedora will continue to be
> the metal from which the young pretenders are forged.
>
> Of course there are those who take shortcuts, and build distros based on
> distros based on distros, like DSL, or even hybrids like Berry (Knoppix
> + Fedora), but the granddaddies will always be the yardstick.
>
>> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7543606709.html
>
> AFAICT there's no news there other than old news. Debian is famous for
> being perpetually late; the author even admits as much. It's also famous
> for its internal squabbling.
>
> Nothing to see here ... move along now.
Arguing that Debian dies is like arguing that hardware/software are dead
because of Software as a Service (SaaS). There is a chain of dependencies a
Debian is near the root of that chain. I don't think that even Red Hat is a
more vital branch.
Now that I check this, yes...
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3370/2500/1600/GNULinuxupdatedw4.0.jpg
The title of that article was perhaps an attempt at trolling by exaggeration.
Just because developers might need payment as incentive doesn't mean it's
dying. And there's a lot of money revolving in Linux (e.g. Mark
Shuttleworth) to ensure that Debian keeps being maintained. Debian
derivatives are often one-man projects that cannot extend without their
predecessor, e.g. MEPIS, which now depends on Debian through Ubuntu (used to
be direct derivative of Debian).
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