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Debian Is the Most Important Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday March 4, 2011 @06:52PM 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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Re:Android is a Linux distro by definition by SwedishPenguin · 2011-03-05 02:07 · Score: 1, Redundant

It's Linux, but it's not GNU/Linux, which is what the term Linux distribution generally refers to, it has nothing to with X but with the GNU toolchain. More like Dalvik/Linux...