La Salle Debain

Open Source @ Consolidated Braincells Inc.

About La Salle Debain

This is a weblog I'm keeping about my work on Debian and any other useful Debian related info I come across. It is not meant to compete with other news sources like Debian Weekly News or Debian Planet. Mostly it is just a way for me to classify and remember all the random bits of information that I have floating around me. I thought maybe by using a blog it could be of some use to others too. Btw. "I" refers to Jaldhar H. Vyas, Debian developer for over 8 years. If you want to know more about me, my home page is here.

The name? Debain is a very common misspelling of Debian and la salle de bains means bathroom in French.

If you have a comment to make on something you read here, feel free to write to me at jaldhar@debian.org.

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Friday, January 3 2003

Press Release About Our Support For Alphas and Sparcs

So Red Hat made an announcement that they were no longer going to support their distribution for Linux on sparcs and alphas. I thought this would be a golden opportunity for us to do some propoganda. After all the number of architectures we support is one of our main distinguishing features. Debian Press Officer Joey Schulze didn't think we should be doing that kind of thing. A flame war erupted as usual. It went off on an unrelated tangent as usual. We discovered I don't understand apostrophes. The press release eventually just fell by the wayside though Joey was kind enough to mention the topic in Debian Weekly News .

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