Martin Krafft talked about Debian at a /ch/open business lunch here in Bern. He reviewed the history and philosophy of Debian and described how the community works today. He positions Debian as "it's not easy, it's not colorful, it is professional" emphasizing the focus on quality of the package maintainers and the Debian process. Some people in the audience told stories how they migrated from Red Hat, SuSE or Mandrake to Debian and also how they watched how communities that were almost all-SuSE two years ago are now almost all-Debian. But it was also clear, that Debian is not the distribution to absolutely recommend to linux beginners.
Martin was also involved in Munich's decision to switch to Linux. It was very interesting to hear this story from an insider and Martin says that the people involved in the migration are very highly skilled, which is good to hear, as this is going to make a very important example.
I also met Hannes Gassert from mediagonal. He is the first person I coincidentally meet, that says "I know you, I read your blog" after he learns who I am. Very cool experience. The world is a village. I added him to my FOAF file.
Posted by seefeld at July 18, 2003 17:11Hi,
On Hannes:
Indeed this is cool. Best to both of you.
Greetings
Roger
Migration from SuSE sounds like an interesting story to tell some of our co-workers. :)
Posted by: Michel Dänzer at July 22, 2003 01:06 AM