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The Importance of Being Debian

Posted by michael on from the join-the-collective dept.

Orre writes "This is an interesting article on why we should be interested in this non-commercial linux distribution. Some of the points: No lies, Suit-Free Zone, Apt-get. And by the way, Hewlett-Packard has chosen Debian to be their standard linux distribution."

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  1. Beg pardon? by Vanders · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The importance of being Debian? Are we going to start some sort of non-Debian using witch hunt now then?

    Whats the penalty for not using Debian?

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    Syllable : It's an Operating System
  2. The Importance of All Linux Distros! by unixmaster · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The Importance of All Linux Distros and this includes Debian
    is to give you an idea why you need to use Slackware :)

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    Never learn by your mistakes, if you do you may never dare to try again
  3. Some animals are more equal than others... by Apostata · · Score: 1, Flamebait


    I can't believe /. would post what is essentially distro propaganda. Debian may be a nice distro, but it's just one in a group of other nice distros.

    The difference being that Debian users often spend much of their spare time making non-Debian users nauseous with their holier-than-thou dribble.

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    This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. - Dorothy Parker
  4. Re:Yay for Debian (flame included...) by Mandi+Walls · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    up2date -l

    Oh, wait. If you're a Debian user, you're probably at least three years behind, so you may have to upgrade some python packages, get the rhn packages, stuff like that. Here is a place to start if you're still running 6.2.

    and you can rpm with http:// as the source. or ftp if you prefer. that may require you to rtfm, though....ouch!

    HP is going with Debian because they hired Bruce Perens. While you're busy slamming commercial linux distributions, it is important to remember that the tools you count on every day have developers, and many of those developers need to eat, house, and clothe themselves, among other things. As someone mentioned in another post, HP has hired some of the Debian people. Certain other commercial linux vendors also have hired people. Kernel people, gcc people, Apache people, etc, etc, etc.

    :P

    Has Debian bothered signing their packages yet? Or has gpg not made it into their distro?