Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
27 08 2006
I was in Limerick last weekend to host and attend a talk given by Martin F. Krafft on the Debian Linux distribution. Martin has been a user and developer for Debian since about 1997 and has written a book, The Debian System about the distribution.
He spoke for a 2 most interesting hours (and a few less than most interesting ones... nah! Only joking! sorry! ;) ) about the Debian distribution, how the Debian Social Contract makes it an almost unique project, and how Ubuntu Linux interacts with the Debian release timeline and process. It was most interesting to compare his description of the Debian community with the Apache / ASF (Apache Software Foundation) community that I was lucky enough to meet at the recent ApacheCon event in Dublin.
I've not got the slides for Martin's talk yet, but will put them up here as soon as I do. For now, here's the recording of the talk in a couple of useful formats. The quality is noticeably improved on the higher bit-rate versions, but grab whichever one is most appropriate to your needs.
