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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday September 16 2017, @03:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the static-is-a-precursor-to-shutdown dept.

After 13 years the Debian-Administration website will go read-only at the end of the month. Then later in the year it will transform it into a solely static-site so that the articles, weblogs, and associated comments are not lost - and they can be served via single server or two. Mostly this is happening due to lack of new content being added and folks posting more elsewhere.

https://debian-administration.org/article/730/This_site_is_going_to_go_read-only


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @04:23AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @04:23AM (#568838)

    Was Ian Murdock [wikipedia.org] the glue that held Debian together? Even if he may not have been involved as deeply with Debian as he once had been, once he passed away things never felt the same within the Debian community. A guiding light was taken away much too soon. Rest in peace, Ian.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Hyper on Saturday September 16 2017, @10:23AM (2 children)

    by Hyper (1525) on Saturday September 16 2017, @10:23AM (#568905) Journal

    Is Linus the glue for which is holding Linux together?

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @11:18AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @11:18AM (#568918)

      Yes. Absolutely.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:07PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:07PM (#569365)

        I can see it now. Microsoft sending assassins to remove the last bastion of Linux freedom. With its defender gone Microsoft will be free to embrace, extend, extinguish