Why Debian is Different
Aug 20, 2008, 14:04 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sam Varghese)
WEBINAR:
On-Demand
Re-Imagining Linux Platforms to Meet the Needs of Cloud Service Providers
[ Thanks to Sam
Varghese for this link. ]
"Can a distribution that serves as the base for others
to profit keep its own userbase? Most definitely - indeed, in many
cases, people have begun using Linux by installing Debian
derivatives. They then find that the old man is much better than
the children and switch to Debian, simply because it encapsulates
many of the pluses that one cannot find in newer
distributions."
Complete
Story
Related Stories:
- Build an Embedded Linux Distro From Scratch(Aug 20, 2008)
- Debian GNU/Linux: 15 Years Old and at the Crossroads(Aug 18, 2008)
- Sidux, a Great Alternative to Ubuntu(Jul 05, 2008)
- Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?(Jul 01, 2008)
- Mad Penguin: The Beauty of "The Debian System"(Dec 16, 2005)
- Debian Multimedia Distribution started(Aug 01, 2001)
- RootPrompt.org: Review of Linux by Libranet(Sep 05, 2000)
- Kernel Cousin Debian Hurd #53 By Zack Brown(Jun 28, 2000)
- CNET: Corel gets help to make Linux easier(Apr 21, 1999)
- Suid problem in samba as shipped with Caldera(Nov 20, 1998)
- DEBIAN: Compaq has donated an Alpha computer to Debian project(Oct 19, 1998)
