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Debian has forums? I never knew that. I always use debian-users or #debian. To be honest one of my favorite things about debian is using bts from the commandlin

by dfc 13y ago

Debian has forums? I never knew that. I always use debian-users or #debian. To be honest one of my favorite things about debian is using bts from the commandline or just plain email to submit/query/track bug reports and never having to use forums for bug reporting.

keithpeter 13y ago
http://forums.debian.net/ http://forums.debian.net/ is one forum. I'm not sure if it is actually a part of the Debian project or just something that grew alongside. Can be useful sometimes, but if your present channels work for you then I'd suggest you might want to do without the 'noise'[1] [1] http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=106389 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=106389 PS: never ceases to amaze me that you can download an iso, boot a computer, install an operating system and application software, and do stuff just when you want to without upfront cost (other than time). Debian is a large part of that history isn't it?
- mhurron 13y ago
  > Debian is a large part of that history isn't it? Debian was an early full Linux distribution, but it wasn't the first. Debians big (early) contribution was apt, which could install packages and resolve dependencies over the internet and made package management easier than rpm based distributions of the time.
  - ics 13y ago
    Slackware's 20th birthday was just last month! It's a little hard to view in landscape mode but Wikipedia has this cool graphic to show the development of Linux distros.
    - drone 13y ago
      I guess not surprisingly, Debian was the distro that switched me off of Slackware. I remember the defining moments for each distribution for me: in 1993, when we set my computer down on a friend's pool table next to a stack of 20+ disks with Slackware on them. (Took the plunge.) And the moment a coworker told me "just install Debian, and use apt-get." (Stopped having to fiddle with configure and make files for things that I "just needed.") Linux has come a long way... =)
    - ics 13y ago
      Apparently dozing and posting doesn't work. Here's the graphic I was talking about: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di...
      - snogglethorpe 13y ago
        Very neat indeed, though its sheer size seemed to cause indigestion in every app I tried to display it with (they could display it OK, but try to zoom in/out and prepare to wait...). It would be even cooler if there was some indication of popularity over time as well, e.g. via variation in line thickness or something (...image gets even bigger... ><).
        ics 13y ago
        ...But if the visuals were that accurate I never would have noticed "GNUGuitarINUX"[1]! [1] http://gnuguitarinux.sourceforge.net/ http://gnuguitarinux.sourceforge.net/
    - espeed 13y ago
      RedHat reaches 20 in a year and nine months.
  - dfc 13y ago
    > made package management easier That is quite the understatement. I can remember the shock and amazement that came over me the first time I used apt. It was one of those computing moments that I will always remember. Unfortunately I also remember being frightened whenever I had to read the XFree86 README and saw the section about video cards setting on fire.
    - dman 13y ago
      apt still has that effect on me. Get new hardware and within 20 minutes youre on your way to have it setup exactly how you want it.
      - dfc 13y ago
        I am actually a little embarassed by the extent of my Debian fanboyness. So even though I would like to shower apt with platitudes I think stellar hardware support is most likely the result of a kernel package that provides almost every kernel module turned on.[1] [1] And to a lesser extent xserver-xorg-{input-all|video-all}
- werid 13y ago
  debian.net projects are unofficial. sometimes they graduate to official debian.org projects.

by dfc 13y ago

keithpeter 13y ago

http://forums.debian.net/ http://forums.debian.net/ is one forum. I'm not sure if it is actually a part of the Debian project or just something that grew alongside. Can be useful sometimes, but if your present channels work for you then I'd suggest you might want to do without the 'noise'[1] [1] http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=106389 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=106389 PS: never ceases to amaze me that you can download an iso, boot a computer, install an operating system and application software, and do stuff just when you want to without upfront cost (other than time). Debian is a large part of that history isn't it?

mhurron 13y ago
> Debian is a large part of that history isn't it? Debian was an early full Linux distribution, but it wasn't the first. Debians big (early) contribution was apt, which could install packages and resolve dependencies over the internet and made package management easier than rpm based distributions of the time.
- ics 13y ago
  Slackware's 20th birthday was just last month! It's a little hard to view in landscape mode but Wikipedia has this cool graphic to show the development of Linux distros.
  - drone 13y ago
    I guess not surprisingly, Debian was the distro that switched me off of Slackware. I remember the defining moments for each distribution for me: in 1993, when we set my computer down on a friend's pool table next to a stack of 20+ disks with Slackware on them. (Took the plunge.) And the moment a coworker told me "just install Debian, and use apt-get." (Stopped having to fiddle with configure and make files for things that I "just needed.") Linux has come a long way... =)
  - ics 13y ago
    Apparently dozing and posting doesn't work. Here's the graphic I was talking about: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di...
    - snogglethorpe 13y ago
      Very neat indeed, though its sheer size seemed to cause indigestion in every app I tried to display it with (they could display it OK, but try to zoom in/out and prepare to wait...). It would be even cooler if there was some indication of popularity over time as well, e.g. via variation in line thickness or something (...image gets even bigger... ><).
      - ics 13y ago
        ...But if the visuals were that accurate I never would have noticed "GNUGuitarINUX"[1]! [1] http://gnuguitarinux.sourceforge.net/ http://gnuguitarinux.sourceforge.net/
  - espeed 13y ago
    RedHat reaches 20 in a year and nine months.
- dfc 13y ago
  > made package management easier That is quite the understatement. I can remember the shock and amazement that came over me the first time I used apt. It was one of those computing moments that I will always remember. Unfortunately I also remember being frightened whenever I had to read the XFree86 README and saw the section about video cards setting on fire.
  - dman 13y ago
    apt still has that effect on me. Get new hardware and within 20 minutes youre on your way to have it setup exactly how you want it.
    - dfc 13y ago
      I am actually a little embarassed by the extent of my Debian fanboyness. So even though I would like to shower apt with platitudes I think stellar hardware support is most likely the result of a kernel package that provides almost every kernel module turned on.[1] [1] And to a lesser extent xserver-xorg-{input-all|video-all}
werid 13y ago
debian.net projects are unofficial. sometimes they graduate to official debian.org projects.