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The secret sauce is so that, despite the huge size of the project, that kind of incident doesn't happen too often :)
by forty 2y ago
The secret sauce is so that, despite the huge size of the project, that kind of incident doesn't happen too often :)
- russfink 2y agoAnother secret sauce is the overwhelming community support for it. That’s one of the reasons why I rebased my side project from Fedora to Debian.
- nucleardog 2y agoFor some reason this all reminded me of a line from the Battlestar Galactica remake: > "The story of Galactica isn't that people make bad decisions under pressure, it's that those mistakes are the exception." The story of Debian isn't the mistakes, it's how few mistakes there are. It's an entire operating system that's been release consistently for over 30 years and currently in 78 languages. There are around 122k packages in the official software repository, almost all packaged by the Debian project. In terms of number of possible combinations of installed systems, just in software packages, that's something like 21 googolplex. Or around 445x the number of atoms in the observable universe. Never mind the different architectures and all the different hardware variants they could be installed on. Even if it wasn't given away _for free_, it would be an impressive achievement. "Yeah, but one time they had a bug!" Yes. Of course they did.