Archive for December, 2007
Ubuntu: the Not Universal Operating System?
Friday, December 21st, 2007Debian describes itself as the Universal Operating System, and basically tries to run in the same way everywhere, from an NSLU2 to an s390. I find it funny to see the number of Ubuntu variants. I can understand that for marketing reasons (Debian doesn’t really know about marketing), it is good to advertise Kubuntu, Xubuntu, [...]
Re: Is it hard for new contributors to help Debian? Can we improve things a bit?
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Andreas Schuldei writes about my blog post about making it easier to contribute to Debian: It is much more gratifying for a contributor if his effords have immediate effects. [...] So what can people who want to help Debian do to achive more imminent gratification? Pick projects that let you help directly with direct svn/git/whatnot [...]
Is it hard for new contributors to help Debian? Can we improve things a bit?
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Debian could use more manpower, but is it actually easy for new contributors who would like to help to do useful things, and get the impression that they actually improved Debian? There are several problems here: Find bugs that are not too hard to fix. I don’t know about your packages, but in mine, there [...]
BLOB
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007I didn’t know about that movie. Funny. Will try to remember to use the poster in a databases course ;-)