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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. HP Selects Debian by csguy314 · · Score: 3, Informative

    well that's no surprise. HP has supported Debian quite a bit and they employee a few people that have been Debian project leaders including current leader Bdale Garbee.

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    This is left as an exercise for the reader.
    1. Re:HP Selects Debian by HeUnique · · Score: 4, Informative

      read the link! it says HP selects debian for it's *internal* use!

      For customers, they'll continue to sell Red Hat products, and some Mandrake on "selected" machines..

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  2. Agreed, but . . . by brokeninside · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your comment seems to me to imply that one cannot buy Debian with support. However, the article specifically states that HP sells and supports Debian. If one buys a system configured with Debian from HP, HP supports it.

  3. Misleading comments on gcc 2.96 by elflord · · Score: 5, Informative
    I like this quote:

    The maintainers of gcc pointed out that development branches of gcc are not intended for production purposes and that any software which is compiled with the forthcoming, stable version of gcc (gcc 3.0) would simply not run on Red Hat 7.

    What the article omits is that Redhat were right, and the gcc developers were wrong. Sure, you couldn't run gcc 3.0 software on Redhat, but so what ? gcc 3.0 was a botched, DOA release, containing an embarrassing bug that prevented it from compiling KDE correctly, which is why it was "skipped" as a distribution compiler. Redhat havereleased an extended 7.x series waiting for an acceptable distribution compiler (gcc 3.1).

    The gcc team are within their rights releasing something that isn't known to compile a package as important as gcc. Redhat, on the other hand, have to make sure that their distribution compiler can build hundreds of packages. In hindsight, it's very clear that Redhats move on gcc was the right one.

  4. Athlon/Pentium builder by nuggz · · Score: 3, Informative

    Use athlon builder or pentium builder, it will compile optimized binaries

    Doing so automatically would be nice

  5. Debian is not just a Linux Distro by thebowery · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hmmmm, lots of people are missing the other part of Debian being kernel independant, there is already a port to a BSD kernel in progress and also you can install it with GNU/HURD if you want.

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