X facts about Debian - some fact checking and looking for ideas.

[Samuel Henrique]

CC'ing to pkg-sec

As far as fact-checking goes, can anybody share about Debian and Kali
> Linux relationship in bit more detail. AFAIK Raphaël Hertzog is one of
> the main developers and there has been lot of symbiotic relationship
> between the two projects but how much both projects have benefited
> from this partnership has not been codified or told/shared anywhere
> AFAIK.


Samuel Henrique <samueloph>

2017-08-23 23:31 GMT-03:00 shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com>:

> Dear all,
>
> I have been writing some beginner articles in my spare-time to
> talk/share about Debian and make it more popular.
>
> In that direction I have and had been penning few articles at
> https://itsfoss.com/author/shirish/
>
> As shared before, these are beginner articles and are meant only to
> bring awareness about Debian to the masses.
>
> Just a few days back, Debian turned 24
> https://bits.debian.org/2017/08/debian-turns-24.html
>
> While I have been thinking about sharing the number of packages, the
> number of developers, the diversity, the debconf's and where debconfs
> have been held over the years for starters but all of these I have
> already shared before.
>
> I saw hartmann's article on p.d.o. the other day
> http://hartmans.livejournal.com/96841.html and I started pondering
> about some of the lesser unknown innovative ideas of debian which
> people don't know about.
>
> For e.g. the reproducible builds project
> https://reproducible-builds.org/ seems to have a lot of weight and
> faith of DD's but is not known at all (or maybe some slightly bit)
> outside the technical circles.
>
> Are there any such unsung technical/non-technical or social
> innovations that Debian has done that is now known/or lesser known
> which Debianities should know about and be proud about. Having more
> Debian fanboys should also increase both participation and
> contribution to Debian.
>
> As far as fact-checking goes, can anybody share about Debian and Kali
> Linux relationship in bit more detail. AFAIK Raphaël Hertzog is one of
> the main developers and there has been lot of symbiotic relationship
> between the two projects but how much both projects have benefited
> from this partnership has not been codified or told/shared anywhere
> AFAIK.
>
> The only thing I could get is
> https://docs.kali.org/policy/kali-linux-relationship-with-debian which
> seems to be pretty dry and short as far as documentation goes.
>
> Looking forward to knowing more.
>
> --
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>           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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