As the designer of the Debian logo I approve of this :-)
Thanks for your work, it’s an awesome logo.
Simple and recognizable. Exactly what a logo is supposed to be. I think it’s the best logo in all of OSS. Basically the Nike swoosh of OSS, everyone else has to put the name of the software on the logo so people will know what it is. But you see the swirl, and you instantly know it’s Debian without any explanation.
Thank you! I am very proud of it and that it’s attached to a project and a community that has stood the test of time.
Thanks for the kind words good fellow!
This is all the validation I need
Taking this opportunity to personally thank you for making a good logo, I absolutely love the Debian swirl! There are so many boring geometric or single-letter logos out there, the details and texture of the swirl is just so good.
Thank you. I really appreciate all the compliments!
It’s an honor
Thank you
🫡Thank you for your service
It’s an honor to meet you
Likewise!
Wow I’m starstruck! Unsurprised to find the Debian gang here, but still very happy about it!
We are everywhere! So glad to see Debian going on strong after all these years.
I miss the days when I was more involved (even though I was always on the side lines)
No way, it’s like I just walked past a celebrity
Did you just sneeze with a red paintbrush in your hand and call it a day?
I’ve admired this logo for 20 years. Debian has the best logo.
Thank you! That made my day!
Wait, so the swirl wasn’t related to the “magic smoke” leaving electronics components when they get fried? Somebody lied to me.
It was tied to magic smoke! But a different of kind. The original requirements called for two logos, one for restricted use, and one for general use. The one that’s being used for general use now was meant to be only for restricted use. The original had a genie bottle from which the swirl came out, the concept was that something very powerful had been unleashed onto the world, free of charge, that stood to change the world. I was inspired by Neil Stephenson’s story The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems - Unix.
Here is a link to the article:
http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html
And here is a link to the two original designs:
Cheers!
That’s cool. Got any proof of that?
That’s me mentioned at the bottom. You can contact me at the link!
Always knew that edna was based enough to use linux.
This is the kind of meme that makes me both happy and sad.
Happy becuase it’s so funny, but sad because nobody I know personally would get it lol.
My first was Mint but i installed (as second boot) Open Suse to try it out, sticked with mint for the most part but i and some friends also run a custom Distro for a Server (its Debian Based)
Mint is just a Workhorse that never failed me. And once you settled you won’t adapt to something different easily.
Mint has so far been the only distro that had 100% of my laptop working. There are other systems that come close, even past 99, but there’s always that one little annoyance. Not with Mint.
Its just so simple. I see people complaining about getting Nvidia drivers to work on Linux, with Mint it takes like two clicks.
Yeah but tbh fuck Nvidia for their asshole behavior on that.
Debian is bestian
Has anyone ever used Xandros?
Take away nostalgia and there’s little reason to pick Debian over other distros
Non of cannonical’s bullshit, more barebones then mint, the only distro i know of where you can almost seemlessly move from stable release to rolling release and back without re-installing, very big software support due to proximity to ubuntu, big repositories, stable is stable AF, you know it will keep being supported for many more years, much more flexible then the DE based distroa like ElementryOS and DeepinOS.
I dont use debian nowadays but its frickin great.
What? Its super stable, super easy to install, and makes it easy to run purely free software, and contributing to it contributes to all downstream distros
You can sorta say that about most popular distros though
Only sort of and not fully though.
A quick run through of some popular distros and reasons you might pick Debian instead of them
- Ubuntu - directed fully by a for profit corporation, might at any time go the way of RHEL (Linux Mint already has a mint spin based on Debian in case Canonical shits the bed). Narrower impact on downstream code bases than Debian (though only barely). Ships by default with non free blobs that you must opt out of.
- Linux mint - very narrow downstream impact. Not as flexible for how you can set it up as Debian (switching desktop environments is strictly unrecommended, and there’s no real reason to run it as a server)
- Fedora - relationship with RedHat is concerning, stability is not there at all
- RHEL-alikes (Rocky, Alma, etc) - uncertain future, though it does look like SUSE is going to help stabilize them. Downstream impact is relatively narrow, though you’d be surprised
- Arch - harder to install, not as suitable for production environments for stability reasons
- Manjaro - horrible stability (worse than arch), not as flexible (like linux mint), holds security patches back, almost no downstream impact
- Slack - harder to install, package management is annoying
- Kali - not for installing on your machine
- Gentoo - see arch
- MX Linux - a little more flexible than Mint, but otherwise, see mint
What about openSUSE???
openSUSE Tumbleweed is basically Arch with a Control Panel and an enterprise backing.
What are your thoughts on PopOS?
Danny devito in a Sia wig, love it
That is clearly Ongo Gablogian, the famous art collector.
Charmed, I’m sure.
That’s a trash can…
POP! OS has got it going on man.
