Debian Linux

I think it's a little fantastic to try to form a picture in people's minds of the Debian archive administration team huddled over their terminals, their faces lit only by a CRT with a little root shell prompt and the command "/project/org/ftp.debian.org/cabal/s3kr1t/nuke-non-free.pl" all keyed in and ready to go, their fingers poised over the enter key, a sweat of lustful anticipated beading on their upper lips."

— Branden Robinson in discussing his draft Social Contract amendment

If you are going to run a rinky-dink distro made by a couple of volunteers, why not run a rinky-dink distro made by a lot of volunteers?

— Jaldhar H. Vyas on debian-devel

Packages should build-depend on what they should build-depend.

— Santiago Vila on debian-devel

There are 3 types of guys -- the ones who hate nerds (all nerds, that is; girls aren't let off the hook); the ones who are scared off by girls who are slightly more intelligent than average; and the guys who are also somewhat more intelligent than average, but are so shy that they can't put 2 words together when they're within 20 feet of a girl.

— Vikki Roemer on debian-curiosa

Debian is the Jedi operating system: "Always two there are, a master and an apprentice".

— Simon Richter on debian-devel

This is Unix we're talking about, remember. It's not supposed to be nice for the applications programmer.

— Matthew Danish on debian-devel

... but hey, this is Linux, isn't it meant to do infinite loops in 5 seconds?

— Jonathan Oxer in the apt-cacher ChangeLog

I'm personally quite happy with one stable release every two years, and am of the opinion that trying to release more will mean we'll have to rename the distro from "stable" to "wobbly".

— Scott James Remnant on debian-devel

< Keybuk> Perl 6 scares me < doogie> you can name your operators anything. the name here is the string '~|_|~' * Lo-lan-2 runs away screaming < Keybuk> it looks like a diagram of a canal lock :) < jaybonci> japanese smiley operators? < nickr> ^_^

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< sam> /.ing an issue is like asking an infinite number of monkeys for advice

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< DanielS> still, throne of blood sounds like a movie about overfiend and virgins or some crap

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< jaybonci> actually d-i stands for "divine intervention" ;)

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< doogie> asuffield: how do you think dpkg was originally written? :| < asuffield> by letting iwj get dangerously near a computer

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< asuffield> a workstation is anything you can stick on somebodies desk and con them into using

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<joshk> joshk@influx:/etc/logrotate.d> sh -n * <joshk> apache: line 14: syntax error near unexpected token `}' <joshk> apache: line 14: `}' <joshk> the plot thickens <asuffield> those aren't shell scripts <erich> this wasn't chicken.

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