Debian is a large, complex operating system, and a huge open source project. It’s thirty years old now. To many people, some of its aspects are weird. Most such things have a good reason, but it can be hard to find out what it is. This is an attempt to answer some such questions, without being a detailed history of the project.

  • @bouh
    1•1 year ago

    Stability is not a drawback. Software engineering should slow down actually. Because the never-ending race for the last new thing or a last minute fix has lead us to a sorry state where most software are never finished, often broken, and in a perpetual prototype state. The industry cannot continue like this.

      • @bouh
        1•1 year ago

        You see, the report or software that’s not supported anymore is exactly what I’m talking about.

        Sure, the numerous new softwares that release everyday might bring us a good one every now and then. But on the other hand they are often drawn under the number itself.

        Software engineering needs industry staples. Like C and python are today. They may not be the best, but it doesn’t matter, we need stable foundations to build on, and for normal people and even engineers to be able to make sense of what works and what doesn’t.