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10 Reasons to Love Debian

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 3, 2008

[ Thanks to André Felipe
Machado
for this link. ]

“This is not a rant about Debian vs. Ubuntu. I used both, loved
both, and I’m currently using Debian Lenny. It’s not about Debian
versus any other distribution either: in fact, I only tried a few
other distros, and most of them were Debian-based. Here are the top
10 reasons for which I enjoy using Debian:

“APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) is Debian’s package management
system. Installing an application is as simple as ‘apt-get install
amarok’ and fetching all the updates can be done with ‘apt-get
update && apt-get upgrade’. Of course, there are APT
frontends like Synaptic, if you’re more comfortable using a
graphical application…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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