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Tue, 16 Dec 2008

Leaving Las Vegas ...

... and Debian.

Today I resigned from Debian. It has been something I have been thinking about for quite a while but it was a recent post by Bastian Vethur that brought about a tipping point.

For me, Debian has always been about new, and shiny. I've always used unstable, and over the last few months had switched to experimental because the flow of updates had basically stopped. Bastian's graphic shows the issue dramatically.

There are also a whole bunch of other reasons but if I have not already discussed the political reasons with you in person they do not bear repeating again.

So, I changed my laptop over to Ubuntu (running Jaunty, and updating daily). The process was far from simple, but if you are used to living on the unstable (or, even, experimental) edge of the blade relatively uncomplicated.

I noted the issues I had upgrading in another entry.

Anyway, Debian is going through a growing phase. Whether it grows to be bigger, more relevant or more useful is what others will have to decide. It's been fun, and I hope the future brings success.

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