Linux Magazine: It's All About the Debians | Linux Today

Linux Magazine: It’s All About the Debians

Written By
JP
Jason Perlow
Feb 27, 2005

[ Thanks to Jason
Perlow
for this link. ]

“Over the last few months, I’ve been paying a lot of attention
to community Linux distributions. In particular, I’ve shown you
what you can do with Fedora, the open source software project
managed by Red Hat that’s both a showcase for leading-edge open
source technology and a foundry for Red Hat’s commercial product,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

“But Fedora isn’t the only community supported Linux
distribution that’s worth looking at as a Linux desktop. Debian,
the distribution with the largest base of available software
packages and the largest development community, has now come of
age…”

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JP

Jason Perlow

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