Ubuntu has been attracting “newbie” users, and also has drawn users away from Debian. Some people are annoyed by Ubuntu because of this - I am not.

Ubuntu users have been happily collecting third-party repositories to get the latest glitz like beryl. Treviño compiled a huge list of them, and made it easy to install (DON’T USE THIS!).

Everybody concerned with security must go mad with just the throught of collecting thrid party repositories for the fun of it. To most of us, it’s bad if we have to use any third party repositories…

However, Johan Kiviniemi reacted in an interesting way. His highly experimental repository - setup for some 5 users or so, on his home DSL line - was included in this stupid “every repository I could find” list. Noticing this increase in users, he found out about this madness - and made a package to replace the default wallpapers (and disable wallpaper changing) with this scary warning message.

Sounds like a good plan to me, however many users were pissed by being warned that they’ve done something stupid…

So: thank you, Ubuntu community, for helping teaching new users that they shouldn’t just blindly install software from the internet. :-) and for keeping these users away from Debian.