Post #2919545

2026-04-23 15:40 UTC

@red@woof.tech In the 21st century, Linux users know that security response is priority: distros like Debian and Fedora have huge communities so there are always developer eyeballs and capability, despite national holidays, vacations, illnesses. 0-days are more likely to be fixed in such a large team. One-off forks have proven to be single points of failure. If you'd like to be the exception to that rule, be more clear about the 95% Debian / 5% you, and what your cybersecurity plan is for that 5%. 2/2

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@red@woof.tech 2026-04-23 16:34

@fossham@mastodon.radio ah, cool, I see. I had thought long and hard about forking ‘proper’, but decided that I’d deviate as little as possible and just ship Debian instead of bootstrapping and generating all my own infrastructure for largely the reasons you mention, but also it’s just a lot of additional work for no gain. Overall we’re pretty aligned in opinion. 1) As mentioned, the rest of the team didn’t want involved in maintenance, so it’s my wee project that’s grown from another. 2) It uses one of the official installers as shipped by Debian live, but if you’d like to use my work in another manner I ensured the hamradio metapackages were in our new ‘blendsel’ in the last major Debian release so you can just use that instead! Similar result but you get the warm fuzzy feeling of cutting my live image and repo out of the loop! I don’t feel running the installer and wiping a machine, making Desktop environment decisions and navigating blendsel makes a great starting point for many newbies, and wanted something different. It works for intermediate users who have started to form opinions. 3) If you read the website and the linked blog post, Debian and my work there is mentioned - I’ve just moved blog site so maybe Less than I thought. I’ll try and be more explicit about my goal and clarify it’s a unofficial Debian using Debian tools by a Debian Developer trying to offer a nicer first use to new faces so his work in Debian is more accessible! [1/2]

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@grimmware@chaos.social 2026-04-23 16:46

@fossham@mastodon.radio @red@woof.tech do you frequently get people agreeing with you when you talk down to them like this on the internet?

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@tj@altelectron.org.uk 2026-04-23 17:05

@fossham@mastodon.radio @red@woof.tech if it helps i could arrange for you to be hit by a bus

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