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A response to DistroWatch “Introducing Debian GNU/Linux 6.0”

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 24, 2011

[ Thanks to Bob_Robertson for this link.
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“The 8th DistroWatch Weekly of 2011 feature article,
“Introducing Debian GNU/Linux 6.0”, comes in as a qualified success
for Debian.

“The author, Jesse Smith, seems to have had trouble with Debian
in the past, even while the various tributary distributions like
Ubuntu and KNOPPIX would run on his hardware just fine. Hardware
wouldn’t be recognized, the installer would crash, and so on. But
in the words of Michael Palin, “This one stayed up!”

“All well and good, let’s explore some of Mr. Smith’s comments
in light of my own rather long history of using Debian.”


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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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