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Debian Is the Most Important Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-of-course-it-is dept.

inkscapee writes "Without Debian we are nothing. Debian is the most influential and important Linux, and is unique for being the largest, oldest, 100% non-commercial community-driven distro. '...just under 63% of all distributions now being developed come ultimately from Debian. By comparison, 50 (15%) are based on Fedora or Red Hat, 28 (9%) on Slackware, and 12 (4%) on Gentoo.'"

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  1. Oldest? by SilverJets · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think Slackware is just slightly older than Debian and this graph seems to indicate that as well.

  2. Re:Do we need this? by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you use linux math, Dell, Compaq, HP, etc all load up Windows with different crapware, so they count as a new distribution.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  3. Re:Do we need this? by armanox · · Score: 3, Informative

    Slackware has Debian beat on age.

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    I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
  4. Re:Android second? by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 4, Informative

    Android 2.2 for i386