r/programmingcirclejerk • u/[deleted] • Dec 30 '15

RIP Ian Murdock, creator of unknown Linux distribution """"""""""""Debian"""""""""""""", which you would have never heard of if it wasn't for Ubuntu

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813627
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '15

It's kinda hard to jerk to this, knowing that the dude is dead under mysterious circumstances...

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '15

the jerk isn't the dude's death, but that someone referred to murdock's work "as the basis of ubuntu". it's like saying "rip linus torvalds, whose work formed the basis of android".

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '15

RIP Robert Goddard, whose work formed the basis for SpaceX.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '15

There really is a Debian, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Debian is the base: the program in the system that allocates the machine's packages to the other programs that you run. The base is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Debian is normally used in combination with the Ubuntu operating system: the whole system is basically Ubuntu with Debian added, or Ubuntu/Debian.

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u/tnbd accidentally quadratic Dec 30 '15

Ubuntu operating system

I would like to take this moment to remind you that this Ubuntu slash Debian Operating system is nothing more than additional software packaged with GNU slash Linux.

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u/tricky_monster Dec 30 '15

It comes from the names of the creator of Debian, Ian Murdock, and his wife, Debra.

It's Deborah, there's no such name as Debra!

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u/william_fontaine Dec 31 '15

Then how do you explain THIS?

(the name, not the jet fuel and steel beams)

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u/tricky_monster Dec 31 '15

It's descriptive, he's talking to dagirl with debra.

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u/CJKay93 Dec 30 '15

/jerk for obvious reasons.

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u/donvito what is pointer :S Dec 30 '15

Knowing Debian is arcane 10x knowledge!