X-Nico

12 unusual facts about Debian


Alexander Peslyak

His code has also been used in various third-party operating systems, such as OpenBSD and Debian.

Amazon MP3

The Downloader is available for Windows (XP, Vista, or 7), Mac OS X 10.4 or higher, and Linux (packages are provided for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE), although the Linux versions are not consistently updated to be compliant with the most recent releases and are not available for 64-bit architectures.

Anthony Towns

Anthony Towns (born 21 June 1978, Melbourne, Australia) is a computer programmer who was a long-time Debian release manager, ftpmaster team member and later the Debian Project Leader (from 17 April 2006 until 17 April 2007).

Final Scratch

FS 1.0 was released for PC only, on a specially modified distribution of Debian Linux.

FTBFS

Traditionally it has been used to call attention to a problem reported about a Debian package, early in its lifecycle.

The term FTBFS tends to be used specifically with the Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions.

It has also been used in Debian bug reports, to alert a developer to the presence of a problem.

Havoc Pennington

He was also one of the main developers of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and also founded the project freedesktop.org in 2000.

Jörg Schilling

Following cdrecord's relicensing to the CDDL, the suite was removed from Debian (and subsequently several other major GNU/Linux distributions) and replaced with a fork called cdrkit.

OpenArena

Thanks to third-party efforts, it is also available from the default repositories of a number of Linux distributions, including Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Arch and Ubuntu.

StreamMyGame

The Player is installed on the computer or device on which the game is to be played and is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 along with Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Xandros, Debian and Yellow Dog Linux.

Traktor

This partnership gave Stanton a Win/Mac version of the Final Scratch software (which previously ran in a version of Debian Linux) and allowed Native Instruments to use the Final Scratch timecode engine in their own Traktor line.


CrunchBang Linux

The first letter of the code name also corresponds to the first letter of the upstream Debian release (previously Debian Squeeze and CrunchBang Statler and currently Debian Wheezy and CrunchBang Waldorf).

Enlight cloud

Other operating systems are supported without scaling options, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Window Server 2003 and Windows 7.

Fernanda G. Weiden

She is a participant in Debian Women and an organizer of the Fórum Internacional Software Livre (FISL).

GetDeb

Debian packages (in combination with APT) package software such that it can easily be installed in a user-friendly point-and-click manner on Debian (and subsequently, several other Linux distributions), removing hurdles for less-technical users.

NetZero

NetZero previously offered a Linux version of the NetZero software advertised as being for Linspire, however the software could be installed on any Debian-based i386 or x86-64 Linux distribution; NetZero can also be installed on any RPM-based Linux distribution as long as Alien is used to convert the NetZero Debian package into an RPM package.

Skolelinux

Skolelinux 1.0 - codenamed "Venus" (after the almost concurrent Venus transit), is based on Debian Woody and was released on June 20, 2004.

Software remastering

The term remastering is taken from the audio production process, and was popularized by Klaus Knopper, creator of the Knoppix live distro, which has traditionally encouraged its users to hack the distribution in this manner to suit their needs; appropriately, Knoppix itself is a remaster of Debian.

Software versioning

The Debian project uses a major/minor versioning scheme for releases of its operating system, but uses code names from the movie Toy Story during development to refer to stable, unstable and testing releases.

Squeak

The Apple Public Source License, as it turns out, fails to pass the third standard that Free and Open Source Software licenses are held to: the Debian Free Software Guidelines promulgated by the Debian project, an influential volunteer-run Linux distribution.

Steve McIntyre

His best known contributions have been in the field of creating Debian CD/DVD images; he is the debian-cd team leader and is responsible for generating the official images.

Too Big to Know

Weinberger discusses topics such as expertise, echo chambers, open government, the WELL, Debian, the U.S. Army's Center for the Advancement of Leader Development and Organizational Learning; and the writing of Charles Darwin (On the Origin of Species) and Nicholas G. Carr ("Is Google Making Us Stoopid?").