The Debian Democracy

Posted by khess on Apr 19, 2010 11:46 AM EDT
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Ubuntu might get a lot more press than its parent, Debian, but there's a reason why Debian spawns more Linux distributions than any other parent distribution: Democracy.

Do you consider yourself to be fairly familiar with the Debian Linux distribution? I thought I was familiar with it enough to know its origin and history, how its name was derived and that Richard Stallman, the Father of the Free Software movement, uses a Debian derivative (gNewSense) for his own personal computer. There's one significant piece of the Debian puzzle that I didn't know about: Its Constitution.

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Debian: democracy or respect for upstream? Steven_Rosenber 11 933 Apr 20, 2010 8:30 AM

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