Re: Funny / interesting facts about Debian

[Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>]

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl dijo [Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 01:09:06PM +0100]:
> (...)
> However, "facts" are more than pure numbers, and what the miss en large
> are non numerical facts, more like anecdotes.
> 
> One Example for such things would be, why there has never been an
> official "Debian GNU/Linux 1.0", or maybe that following the host naming
> scheme, our list-server is named liszt.debian.org (interesting and kind
> of funny).
> 
> So, if you remember such - well, shall we say small anecdotes? - please
> tell us :)  If it's to long to be dented during the release, we might
> still use it for a new fortunes file :)

Ugh, debian-curiosa is the source of mannnnny pointless, possibly
unexplainable such anecdotes.

Maybe adding the number of people interested in following -curiosa as
a fact (in relation to the number of people following development,
users, l10n, community lists) could be an interesting fact? :-}