I stumbled on to this, I think it was a April fools joke, but who knows ?
https://bits.debian.org/2016/04/publici ... debian.org
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April Fools Day @ Debian
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April Fools Day @ Debian
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Re: April Fools Day @ Debian
The best news
Each person providing their data to the agency will receive coupon for a 20% discount in the download (purchase) of next Debian release (valid only for downloads from the official site http://www.debian.org).
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Re: April Fools Day @ Debian
Try this one too...
http://fossbytes.com/microsoft-buys-can ... x-forever/
http://fossbytes.com/microsoft-buys-can ... x-forever/
Re: April Fools Day @ Debian
My favorite one of all was back something like 3 years ago (maybe 4??), when some delightful soul rewrote the entire Debian home page (www.debian.org) in LOLspeak. I almost peed my pants laughing.
Re: April Fools Day @ Debian
And 2011 gave is this gem
https://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110401
Around that time, kernel.org was upside down.
https://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110401
Around that time, kernel.org was upside down.
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Re: April Fools Day @ Debian
The sad part being that this year's joke took two days to be found by a community that prides itself on being able to react much more quickly than other OSs. And both this and previous April Fools Day jokes are astonishingly close to addressing real issues in the Linux world, such as better publicity, reduced fragmentation and being seen as a community of geeks. I'll go back to my (monitor lined) cave now.
- stevepusser
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Re: April Fools Day @ Debian
That was a cruel hoax; so many people here had their hopes raised only to be dashed down upon the rocks of reality.andre@home wrote:Try this one too...
http://fossbytes.com/microsoft-buys-can ... x-forever/
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Re: April Fools Day @ Debian
the provedasein wrote:My favorite one of all was back something like 3 years ago (maybe 4??), when some delightful soul rewrote the entire Debian home page (http://www.debian.org) in LOLspeak. I almost peed my pants laughing.
http://i.imgur.com/ElqlWye.png