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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. Though, I'm inclined to agree... by The+Altruist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This smells suspiciously like flame-bait. And if you look carefully, you'll see an army of trolls off in the horizon.

  2. Re:Android? by larry+bagina · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Red Hat, Debian, and pretty much everyone except Linus Torvalds himself use a modified version of the Linux kernel.

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

  3. Re:Descendent distributions != Importance by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't 'Number of descendent distributions' a crappy metric for 'Importance'?

    No. It's perfectly adequate for starting a flamewar among ignorant zealots and obsessive fanboys in order to generate page hits and advertising revenue.

    P.S. Ubuntu sucks.

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  4. Android is a Linux distro by definition by Morgaine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Linux is officially just a kernel, and a "Linux distro" is any suite of user-side, open source software that provides a complete operating system based on that Linux kernel.

    That makes Android a totally kosher Linux distro, even if it is an unusual one with a special Java-based UI by default. It can't be suggested that lack of X11 means that it's not a Linux distro, since there are lots of other Linux distros without X11 too.

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