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Disclosure: Debian lover here. Do you think the world runs on Debian? What if everybody started making announcements about his/her Linux distribution of choice

by lelele 16y ago

Disclosure: Debian lover here. Do you think the world runs on Debian? What if everybody started making announcements about his/her Linux distribution of choice? And what about other major pieces of software? Since you got 15 upvotes so far, I guess that would be really appreciated.

mgunes 16y ago
> What if everybody started making announcements about his/her Linux distribution of choice? My unscientific impression is that the distributions of choice among active HN users who follow up the development and progress of their distribution closely are largely limited to Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and CentOS. News of pretty much every milestone release of these distributions is submitted, usually upvoted, and seems to be appreciated, before falling off the front page in less than a day in the most extreme case (final releases). The disaster scenario of this being the case for 43985 different distributions seems outside the realm of possibility, thus there's not much cause for concern.
- lelele 16y ago
  I'm a bit amazed that HNers have to know from here whenever there is some big news regarding their softwares of choice. I didn't mention just GNU/Linux distributions, though, but all major pieces of software (languages, frameworks, etc.). Of course, if there is something special about some news, we'd like to know. For instance, when Debian started building on FreeBSD kernel, well, that's news! Instead, recently Debian got frozen... so what? If you already follow the development of Debian, you'd already learned that from other sources, and reading it here wouldn't add any value. It's about keeping an high signal to noise ratio. Recently, I feel HN is becoming noisier. Maybe I just overreacted because that annoys me. Well, it seems I'm the only one who's annoyed by this "noise", however. Or I just picked the less offensive source. Thanks for listening.
  - mkr-hn 16y ago
    HN seems to be as much about discussion as it is about news. Otherwise, why have comments? HN people might hear about it elsewhere, but this is probably where they would prefer to discuss it.
  - DrJokepu 16y ago
    I actually learn that kind of stuff here. Even though I use Fedora these days and haven't used Debian since Potato (that was a long time ago) I am still interested to hear what's going on with Debian although I'm not following it closely.
martey 16y ago
I assumed that the grandparent commenter was being sarcastic, based on the frequency of Debian stable releases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Release_history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Release_history
- __david__ 16y ago
  Yeah, isn't this the first one in the whole history of Hacker News?

by lelele 16y ago

mgunes 16y ago

> What if everybody started making announcements about his/her Linux distribution of choice? My unscientific impression is that the distributions of choice among active HN users who follow up the development and progress of their distribution closely are largely limited to Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and CentOS. News of pretty much every milestone release of these distributions is submitted, usually upvoted, and seems to be appreciated, before falling off the front page in less than a day in the most extreme case (final releases). The disaster scenario of this being the case for 43985 different distributions seems outside the realm of possibility, thus there's not much cause for concern.

lelele 16y ago
I'm a bit amazed that HNers have to know from here whenever there is some big news regarding their softwares of choice. I didn't mention just GNU/Linux distributions, though, but all major pieces of software (languages, frameworks, etc.). Of course, if there is something special about some news, we'd like to know. For instance, when Debian started building on FreeBSD kernel, well, that's news! Instead, recently Debian got frozen... so what? If you already follow the development of Debian, you'd already learned that from other sources, and reading it here wouldn't add any value. It's about keeping an high signal to noise ratio. Recently, I feel HN is becoming noisier. Maybe I just overreacted because that annoys me. Well, it seems I'm the only one who's annoyed by this "noise", however. Or I just picked the less offensive source. Thanks for listening.
- mkr-hn 16y ago
  HN seems to be as much about discussion as it is about news. Otherwise, why have comments? HN people might hear about it elsewhere, but this is probably where they would prefer to discuss it.
- DrJokepu 16y ago
  I actually learn that kind of stuff here. Even though I use Fedora these days and haven't used Debian since Potato (that was a long time ago) I am still interested to hear what's going on with Debian although I'm not following it closely.

martey 16y ago

I assumed that the grandparent commenter was being sarcastic, based on the frequency of Debian stable releases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Release_history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Release_history

__david__ 16y ago
Yeah, isn't this the first one in the whole history of Hacker News?