AKFQuiz version 4.3.0 or higher # Questions for the Debian Quiz # http://www.df7cb.de/debian/quiz/ # # (c) 2005 Christoph Berg # (c) 2005 Alexander Schmehl # All rights reserved. # This text is free; for licensing terms see Creative Commons' # Attribution-ShareAlike license, version 2.5 at # http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ title: Debian Quiz author: copyright: 2005 Christoph Berg, 2005 Alexander Schmehl authorlink: mailto:cb@df7cb.de mailto:tolimar@schmehl.info translator: edited: License: Creative Commons' Attribution-ShareAlike, version 2.5 LicenseLink: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ default: I don't know language: en charset: ISO-8859-1 htmlcode: yes neutral: no baseURI: assessmentURI: layout: q-blue.css noindex: no question: Debian is about ... 0 free beer, free beer, free beer, and even more free beer 0 free entry and free ice cream 1 free speech and free software 0 sex, drugs & rock'n'roll remark: Debian's social contract defines "free" as in free speech. question: The official pronunciation of Debian is 0 dep an 0 deeeb iron 1 deb ee n 0 who cares? remark: "Deb" as in "Debra" and "ian" as in "Ian". question: What is sarge+1 called? 0 sid 1 etch 0 warty 0 the DPL has not yet decided remark: etch is Etch-a-Sketch from Toy Story. question: Which scripting language is part of the Debian base install? 0 python 1 perl 0 forth 0 ruby remark: perl is installed by debootstrap. question: When was Debian founded? 0 1991 1 1993 0 1995 0 1997 remark: Debian was first announced in this posting in 1993. question: Who founded Debian? 0 Ian McEwan 1 Ian Murdock 0 Ian Jackson 0 Ian Flemming remark: Debian is named after Debra and Ian Murdock. question: Dueling ... 0 flamewars 0 manojs 1 banjos 0 morons remark: From time to time, random people ask for "dueling banjos" on debian-curiosa and other lists. No one knows why this started; now the Debian lists are listed on Google for that topic. question: I'm surrounded by ... 0 flamewars 0 manojs 0 banjos 1 morons remark: "Morons, I'm surrounded by morons." is a quote by Joel 'Espy' Klecker who died in 2000. question: Most debian.org machines are named after 0 characters from "Toy Story" 0 super models 0 dinosaurs 1 classical composers remark: Most machines are named after classical composers, as explained by Joey. question: Who is responsible for updating testing? 0 katie 0 debra 0 amber 1 britney remark: The testing update script is called britney. question: What is ubuntu? 0 the Debian unstable branch 0 a graphical administration tool 1 an African word 0 a Debian subproject remark: "ubuntu" means "humaneness". question: debian/rules is a ... file 1 make 0 perl 0 xml 0 sh remark: debian/rules is interpreted by make. question: irc.debian.org is a CNAME for 1 irc.freenode.net 0 irc.openprojects.net 0 irc.oftc.net 0 irc.ircnet.net remark: irc.freenode.net (which was formerly known as irc.openprojects.net). question: The first non-i386 Debian port was 0 ppc 1 m68k 0 hppa 0 mips remark: The m68k port was started in August 1995. question: What is not a Debian distribution codename? 0 buzz 1 joey 0 sid 0 bo remark: Joey is of course not a Toy story character, but a real person. question: .deb packages are ... archives 1 ar 0 cpio 0 zip 0 tar remark: Internally, .deb packages are 'ar' files that contain tar.gz files. question: For which architecture has no Debian port been released yet? 1 sh 0 s390 0 mips 0 hppa remark: The Hitachi SuperH port has not been released (and seems dead, unfortunately). question: Which pair is a Debian pair? 0 PM - MP 0 AM - PM 1 AM - NM 0 AM - AC remark: Application Manager - New Maintainer. question: Who is tbm? 0 Theodore Ts'o 0 Ryan Murray 1 Martin Michlmayr 0 Anthony Towns remark: Martin Michlmayr's nickname stems from an account name his brother had used earlier. question: What's Branden Robinson's nickname? 0 vorlon 1 Overfiend 0 Kamion 0 mako remark: Branden Robinson is called Overfiend on IRC. question: Who is shown on the picture at tinc.debian.net? 0 debian-edu 0 debian-cdd 1 debian-women 0 debian-med remark: The debian-women which was founded in May 2004. question: Which city is famous for a recent release manager meeting? 0 Karlsruhe 0 Helsinki 1 Vancouver 0 Cambridge remark: The release managers and ftp-masters met in Vancouver in March 2005. question: Which game is the culprit for most stalls in any Debian process? 1 tetrinet 0 tuxracer 0 quake3 0 nethack remark: Some developers spend whole weekends playing tetrinet. question: How often did Branden Robinson run for DPL? 0 2 times 0 3 times 0 4 times 1 5 times remark: Branden ran in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and got elected in 2005. question: Debian Developers often ... the planet 0 run 0 save 0 debug 1 flood remark: Flooding planet.debian.org with stale blog entries is a recurrent annoyance. question: Alexander "Tolimar" Schmehl is Debian's 0 CIA 1 CEO 0 CFO 0 CTO remark: Alexander was declared Debian's Chief Events Officer. question: See you in ... 1 HEL 0 amd64 0 apt 0 FHS remark: Debconf 5's motto was "See you in HEL(sinki)". question: "Damnation" means getting stuck in the ... queue 0 buildd 1 NM 0 NEW 0 DSA remark: Historically, some New Maintainers were stuck in the NM queue for many months or even years, waiting for the DAM to create their account. question: Which of the following package names is not a Debian Developer login? 1 elmo 0 pyro 0 amaya 0 sam remark: elmo is James Troup's IRC nick, but his login is troup. question: What is hot-babe? 0 an image viewer 0 a package in Debian for monitoring network activity 0 a package in Debian for monitoring system activity 1 a way to create a flamewar remark: Hot-babe was announced in ITP #283578 but was rejected by the ftp-masters. The flamewar it sparked on debian-devel was high even for Debian standards. question: Who has the minimum mean signing distance in the global web of trust? 0 Andreas Mueller 0 Werner Koch 1 Peter Palfrader 0 Florian Lohoff remark: Peter "weasel" Palfrader is #1 since mid 2005. question: GFDL is ... 0 short for "General Free Documentation License" 1 non-free 0 short for "GNU French Debian Language Team" 0 short for "God fried debian-legal" remark: The GNU Free Documentation License is generally considered to be non-free. question: Which is not a proper subject tag for a wnpp bug? 0 ITA 0 ITP 1 RFS 0 RFP remark: Though commonly used on the debian-mentors list, RFS (request for sponsor) is not used for wnpp bugs. question: What is the highest version epoch used in Sarge? 0 6 1 7 0 8 0 9 remark: The 7 binaries produced by the uw-imap source package carry the proud version number 7:2002edebian1-11, followed by imagemagick (6:6.0.6.2-2.4, 6 binaries). question: Which version of the kde package is included in Sarge? 0 None in Debian/main, since Qt is non-free. 0 4:3.3.2-6.1 0 4.0beta1 1 5:44 remark: "kde" is a meta package that does not track the actual KDE version number. question: FTBFS? 0 fast time building from source 0 first time to build from source 1 fails to build from source 0 fast test build from source remark: This package did not even compile. question: udebs are used in ... 1 the debian-installer 0 Ubuntu 0 embedded systems 0 Debian archive maintenance scripts remark: .udeb packages are packages specially crafted for d-i. comment: the following were suggested by Joey: question: DWN is ... 0 Debian WNPP Notification 0 Debian World Network 0 Debian Women Newsletter 1 Debian Weekly News remark: DWN stands for Debian Weekly News. question: debian-jr is ... 0 an early pre-release when the distribution wasn't finished 0 supporting young Debian developers 1 a sub-project for supporting children 0 a famous Debian developer from Dallas 0 Debian's Japanese localization remark: The Debian Jr. Project is a custom Debian distribution "for children from 1 to 99". #question: #Enemies of Carlotta is ... # #1 a mailing list manager #0 a multiplayer roleplaying game #0 an adventure game #0 a remote administration tool question: lists.debian.org runs ... 0 mailman 1 smartlist 0 ecartis 0 majordomo remark: murphy.debian.org runs smartlist, the biggest procmail script ever. #question: #i386 has how many percent of all source packages? # #0 100% #0 98% #0 95% #0 90% question: You start a GR when you want ... 1 to change the DFSG 0 to join Debian 0 to killfile someone 0 a release RSN remark: Changing a Foundation Document requires a 3:1 majority in a General Resolution. comment: The following question was sent in at Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:57:26 +0000 from "Thaddeus H. Black" <t@b-tk.org> question: A facet is a ... 0 python module API 0 debian-installer interface 0 translatable string in gettext 1 debtags axis remark: A facet is an axis along which binary packages are classified in debtags. assessment%: 100 Perfect. Go apply for DPL :-) 91 Almost perfect. Are you a Debian Developer? 76 Pretty good. Some answers were still wrong, though. 51 Your Debian knowledge is good, but you lack some deeper insights. 36 Your Debian knowledge is not really good, but that's not the end of life. 25 You've never heard of Debian before, have you? 0 You could get *that* score just by guessing. end