Happy Birthday!
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| Author | Content |
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| Bob_Robertson Aug 16, 2007 4:45 PM EDT |
I've been using Debian for 12 of those 14 years. It has been fascinating to watch as the processes have evolved. What's most interesting, maybe, is how much they haven't changed. "dselect", the tool for package management that I first used, still works today exactly as it did then. I remember scrolling through page after page of packages, selecting ones that looked interesting (or that I recognized from having used SunOS, like xv) and having their dependencies automatically taken care of but only after I say it's ok. This is not a bad thing, it demonstrates that some designs work from their inception. Needless to say that the installation has gotten better over time, that the number and variety of available packages has expanded (from ~400 to more than 21k), but then so has the user base. I've installed Debian on three different hardware architectures, including through a console cable on a headless SPARC-2, and it just works. I'm just a user, I never pretended to be anything more. I file the occasional bugreport, I get on the occasional Debian Developer's nerves with "stupid questions", but such is life. My thanks to the Debian developers that make it all possible. |
| tuxchick Aug 16, 2007 6:07 PM EDT |
What you said! Happy Birthday, Debian, may you have many more! |
| Steven_Rosenber Aug 17, 2007 3:20 PM EDT |
I declare my uabashed love for Debian. It's treated me better than just about anything else I've used. |
| Sander_Marechal Aug 17, 2007 3:28 PM EDT |
Don't let dino hear you. He'll drive you into the sea, he will! |
| dinotrac Aug 17, 2007 6:37 PM EDT |
>Don't let dino hear you. He'll drive you into the sea, he will! Goodness no. I don't care who runs Debian, so long as I don't have to. |
| Bob_Robertson Aug 17, 2007 6:45 PM EDT |
Well, you never have to worry about me trying to coerce you to do anything. Anything at all. :^) |
| dinotrac Aug 18, 2007 12:41 PM EDT |
>Well, you never have to worry about me trying to coerce you to do anything. And I appreciate that. Now if only my wife would follow your lead... ;0) |
| Bob_Robertson Aug 18, 2007 4:43 PM EDT |
> Now if only my wife would follow your lead... Didn't you read your marriage contract? It's in there, and you signed it: "Obey!" _Voluntary_ servitude isn't unconstitutional. :^) |
| tqk Aug 19, 2007 8:04 AM EDT |
Quoting:Happy Birthday, Debian, may you have many more!And a better behaved teenager, there never was. |
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