Understanding The Complicated Debian

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Understanding The Complicated Debian

With Debian now being more than two decades old, it has a long history, but a Phoronix reader has tried to make sense of the situation...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc4MzE

[Ancurio]

Jesus Christ.

[Mat2]

The sad part is that Ian and Debra divorced.
(Look at the heart in the left bottom quarter)

[dcmst]

Does anybody know what software has been used for making the infographic?

[pingufunkybeat]

Does anybody know what software has been used for making the infographic?

Inkscape.

It says so on the left side of the graphic.

[dcmst]

Inkscape.

It says so on the left side of the graphic.

thank you very much, missed that.

[dante]

Debian is one of the greatest Linux distros, mature, stable, i hope they never change their philosophy and became a crappy unstable distro like fedora , ubuntu and etc

[Nuc!eoN]

Appears to be a very simplified infographic of Debian.

[Ardje]

I do miss full derivatives like nokia's maemo, but also open-embedded and all other ipkg and opkg based distributions.
Sometimes I look at package descriptions from openwrt, and my hands just itch because I know what they did wrong. (There were a lot of packages in openwrt which as a description contained the first line of the long description, while in packaging you start with the one-liner, followed by a multiline full description).
Anyway, I see now derivatives are more a sample than a full list.
A full list would have been awesome.

[schmidtbag]

Debian is one of the greatest Linux distros, mature, stable, i hope they never change their philosophy and became a crappy unstable distro like fedora , ubuntu and etc

Unfortunately, IMO, they got considerably worse over the years. Their stable is actually pretty stable, but if you're using old hardware and anything outside of LXDE or XFCE, you're missing out on important features, security updates, and bug fixes. Their release of KDE is heavily outdated, when for the past year KDE has been nothing but translation updates and bug fixes. What do they hope to prove by using an old version? Newer releases are proven to be more stable, so Debian is being kind of hypocritical. Debian, IMO, is good for servers and maintaining consistent environments but makes for a really crappy desktop distro. I feel like if the devs stopped getting so caught up in their idea that old==stable, their testing and unstable releases would be far more reliable. Arch linux uses packages newer than sid and almost never breaks. But I can't go an entire year using a debian testing without being dumped to the command line because they managed to break something.