(That’s Dick Van Dyke living it up at 99)
Never thought that a 99 years old Dick pic would make me smile…
I think the old man is Ian.
Debian is that one guy on a construction site who, despite doing as little as possible each day, somehow is the only thing keeping the company functional.
Debian is like 50s electric tools, not as effective as new ones, but will outlast everyone and everything
Precisely
inherited from my granddad, it’s been from his garage (shop) since the 60s, and it’s now forming 3D printed parts in my flat.
Interesting note: Dick Van Dyke was a big Amiga user back in the day.
TIL. Nice!
We have found him: Debian Sid.
He’s lookin’ kinda unstable.
I started calling it “Grandma Debian” for some reason.
… I say this as a Debian user after new versions of Mint failed to accurately detect my RAID size. I tried Ubuntu for giggles, same problem, but Grandma Debian worked perfect out of the box.
To be fair, it is a software RAID in the BIOS and those are known to be odd.
currently switching all my rhel derived(fedora, centos, rocky, alma) servers over to Debian.
it just works and I’m not afraid of some dumbass political move to block or change access to it.
if all else fails, I’ll probably switch to opensuse.
I can’t see a reason for Debian to fall especially for servers, except where you’ve got some packages built for RHEL only, though you’d have the same issue with any distro.
I’m doing the same BTW. Except for what I have no control over, which is OL. But that’s a vendor box so its mostly their problem.
opensuse will be a much better experience than any rhel
I still don’t get why my laptop shipped with BIOS raid enabled.
It only has one drive!
People should find a better foundation for self-esteem than hating linux distros. They’re mostly ok, and without debian Linux wouldn’t be what it is today
Preferring a certain distro is fine but why care if others like something else?
Kids don’t understand the issues Ubuntu had early on. Especially when you had limited resources on the system, Debian was ol’ reliable for so long.
But yeah, I’ve regretted the past couple Debian installs I did. Its time has passed.
It’s not a Linux party without old Dick!
He looks pretty young for a 99 year old. Would have put him at early 80s.
He’s not 99 for another couple weeks, but when you’re pushing 100, you get to round up a little as long as you don’t round above the 100 mark lol.
I hear that particular 2 weeks is all the difference
It was for Betty White :(
Omg lol
if debian is the old man, what does that make patrick and slackware?
Real life Benjamin Button.
I thought that was Terry Pratchett at first for some reason and was sorely disappointed 🙁
GNU Terry Pratchett 😿
Mx Linux is the old man distro to me
Fun fact: Ian Murdock released Debian when he was 20 years old.
Ian Murdock was 20 when he released Debian, it is too late, chasing career is not worth it
Fun fact: every old man was 20 years old at one time
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Monopoly Man was born old.
Except Colombians. According to a running joke a couple friends and I have had going since watching formula 1 decades ago, Columbian men spontaneously appear at age 27.
I actually call Debian itself “old man”, not its users. I don’t know why, but that fits Debian in my mind.
How dare people appreciate stability
Debian to me is like that one old dude that you know, who’s a very good dude, wise as fuck and got his whole figured out.
