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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.'"

2 of 354 comments (clear)

  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: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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