Sudo Wrestling Podcast: Episode #6: Debian enters puberty, Linux looks lovely right now, and the myth of market share
We have returned from our secret locations. We both avoided getting shot by Dick Cheney, and Lisa can add to her resume that she single-handedly saved her area of Florida from certain doom by making a burnt offering to the storm gods of liveCDs that had never been used to boot a system.
So what do we gab about this week? Lots of stuff, like how Lisa's landscapers come when we call each other, and how Shoe's nice city infrastructure guys also chose this time to rip a telephone pole out of the ground in front of her house.
We take a moment to celebrate Debian's fifteenth birthday. We remember when you were just a tiny swirl in Deb and Ian's eyes, Debian! Now look at you, wearing those kick ass baggy pants, showing your hella cool underwear to all the girls. Soon, we'll be taking out on the road with a learner's permit. We hope you handle our car as well as you allow your services to handle packet collisions.
Shoe and Lisa like to talk about how Linux will look in 2012. We bet it will be installed in all of our flying cars and personal jetpacks.
Did you take statistics in college? Why? Are you crazy? What the hell is market share when you're talking about Linux? Who defines market share, and do they define it well enough so that we all know that we're talking about the same thing? Want Lisa and Shoe to install Linux on your neighbor's computer? Is he hawt and without major issues? Heh, yeah... right!
And, of course, our relevant links:
Happy Birthday Debian! -- We made you a cake, but we eated it!
The Big Ass Look (in text) at Linux 2012
Market Share -- If everyone wants more of it, it isn't really sharing now, is it?
Max Spevack is 33% sure that 48% of the statistics Mark Shuttleworth makes up are made up on the spot. This, my friends, is why Shoe never excelled in math. She is 100% positive of that.
And again... Talk to us. What do you want to hear? Or see? Let us know. We love to hear your voices and ideas. We won't laugh at them. We aren't like the other girls.
So what do we gab about this week? Lots of stuff, like how Lisa's landscapers come when we call each other, and how Shoe's nice city infrastructure guys also chose this time to rip a telephone pole out of the ground in front of her house.
We take a moment to celebrate Debian's fifteenth birthday. We remember when you were just a tiny swirl in Deb and Ian's eyes, Debian! Now look at you, wearing those kick ass baggy pants, showing your hella cool underwear to all the girls. Soon, we'll be taking out on the road with a learner's permit. We hope you handle our car as well as you allow your services to handle packet collisions.
Shoe and Lisa like to talk about how Linux will look in 2012. We bet it will be installed in all of our flying cars and personal jetpacks.
Did you take statistics in college? Why? Are you crazy? What the hell is market share when you're talking about Linux? Who defines market share, and do they define it well enough so that we all know that we're talking about the same thing? Want Lisa and Shoe to install Linux on your neighbor's computer? Is he hawt and without major issues? Heh, yeah... right!
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And, of course, our relevant links:
Happy Birthday Debian! -- We made you a cake, but we eated it!
The Big Ass Look (in text) at Linux 2012
Market Share -- If everyone wants more of it, it isn't really sharing now, is it?
Max Spevack is 33% sure that 48% of the statistics Mark Shuttleworth makes up are made up on the spot. This, my friends, is why Shoe never excelled in math. She is 100% positive of that.
And again... Talk to us. What do you want to hear? Or see? Let us know. We love to hear your voices and ideas. We won't laugh at them. We aren't like the other girls.
Just found your site and podcasts. Nice work. I have a say something about your comments on Debian. Although your comments do reflect the way Debian has been presented to the world lately. It isn't the way many Debian types use it. I've used Debian for 8+ years and the release cycle has nothing to do with updates or access to the latest version of this and that. As you already know there are 5 branches active all the time. Of these branches multiple processors are supported. The developers of Debian are in charge of maintaining the largest collection of packages of any open source project I know of. This makes for the best computer swiss army knife regardless of which processor you choose. They deserve far greater respect for there efforts than you gave in your podcast. Also, without Debian there wouldn't be Xandros, knoppix, Ubuntu, Mepis, etc. etc.
I have the discomfort of maintaining support of Ubuntu and Debian side by side and even though Ubuntu is cleaned Debian unstable I find that I encounter more issues with Ubuntu then with Debian unstable using the same general configuration. I'm not discrediting Ubuntu. They've done something amazing. They made Linux become part of general consumers vocabulary without nearly the negativity that has been prevalent in the past.
Debian's power isn't popularity in public. Its power is consistency. You can install the latest software from unstable/testing or you can go with rock solid stablility. Your choice but those of us who use it know why. We don't need to be the hip thing to know its value to Linux/BSD/GNU/Opensource. I hope that I didn't sound angry. I feel strongly about Debian just as anyone feels strongly about there choices. I just hope people realize that the Father of many distros has more value to open source than people realize or at least talk about.
Long live - APT TOOLS, Choice of platform, Choice of stability, Choice of Kernel, Choice of prebuilt package or from source in one distro
Thank You for your Podcast.
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