News: Savannah now runs on Debian Lenny
Savannah now runs on Debian Lenny
Item posted by Sylvain Beucler <Beuc> on Tue 03 Mar 2009 09:22:44 PM UTC.
The whole Savannah infrastructure has now switched from Debian Etch (4.0) to Debian Lenny (5.0). Thanks to the VServer technology, we could upgrade each part independently over a few days with only a few minutes of downtime.
Comments:
| Why Debian? (posted by micho, Mon 06 Apr 2009 12:23:21 PM UTC) |
why not gNewSense? |
| RE: Why Debian? (posted by Luka Woititz, Fri 17 Apr 2009 09:21:22 PM UTC) |
The Debian GNU computer operating system is much more flexible and configurable than GNewSense GNU+Linux, which is based on the Ubuntu GNU+Linux operating system. |
| RE: Why Debian? (posted by micho, Mon 20 Apr 2009 02:50:25 PM UTC) |
I know, but above says:
Welcome to Savannah, the software forge for people committed to Free Software:
* We host free projects that run on free operating systems and without any proprietary software dependencies
But (I think) Debian is not 100.00% free. And if it is, why is not in http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html ? |
| RE: Why Debian? (posted by Luka Woititz, Fri 24 Apr 2009 07:59:04 PM UTC) |
The Debian operating system itself is composed 100% of free software, and the Debian project aims that it will not depend on any proprietary computer software in order to function.
However, the Debian project does not limit computer programmers to include proprietary software in their official repositories (which are not an essential part of the computer operating system). As you know, these proprietary computer softwares are software device drivers for example, which are in contrast with the GNewSense operating system, included.
So, basically, we can have two point of views on the situation. The Debian GNU/Linux operating system itself is free computer software, some other components (which are not required at all - the first paragraph of the Debian Social Contract) may be not. But it does have a strong affiliation to the free software movement; probably a lot more than any other distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system out there.
Of course, these non-free software repositories are separated from the main ones, so it is easy to configure an Debian operating system to work only with libre software.
I think you can trust the Savannah project, that it will carefully think about the computer software it will run. |
| RE: Why Debian? (posted by Sylvain Beucler, Tue 28 Apr 2009 01:31:39 PM UTC) |
We naturally don't install proprietary software (i.e. using only the 'free' section in 'sources.list'), and do not load proprietary kernel modules. Debian otherwise has the advantage of being run through a democratic process, not being controlled by one company.
When we say "100% free software" the goal is to provide tools and best practices for free software hosting, without restricting to a specific distro.
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| RE: Why Debian? (posted by Nicolau Leal Werneck, Fri 02 Oct 2009 09:18:00 PM UTC) |
I was going to post exactly this. Thanks!
I find it a real nuisance that Debian does not have the FSF seal of approval. I like to see that it is nevertheless accepted inside the organization. That shows they are tolerant people who care for software necessity first, and sticking to the FSF recommendations later.
By the way, it seems the gnewsense.org HTTP server runs over Ubuntu!... I'll tell that next time I hear someone saying the FSF is a bunch of crazy zealots. :) |

