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Debian: A Brief Retrospective

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-back-in-the-past dept.

IanMurdock writes "This weekend, Debian turned 10. To mark the occasion, I've written a retrospective, published at LinuxPlanet. There's also a very nice piece, based in part on my early writings about Debian as well as the retrospective, at internetnews.com."

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  1. Moderation by no+reason+to+be+here · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Score:-1, Dork ;P

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  2. Debian isn't the most GNU distribution. by dstone · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Debian still stands out as the distro most reflective of the GNU philosophy.

    Actually, that's not true anymore. Things have changed and Debian is not the best example of free software or GNU. Check out GNU/Linex instead.

    You'll not see a link to Debian from the FSF/GNU sites for this reason. Debian still distributes non-free software. Yes, you can install Debian without the optional non-free stuff, but they really do encourage installing non-free software on your system easily.

    While RMS currently has a machine running Debian (without the non-free bits, I'm sure), he claims that it's because this new all-free distro (GNU/Linex) wasn't available at the time. See this recent RMS interview for more.