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| Newer page: | version 13 | Last edited on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:09:40 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 7 | Last edited on Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:00:29 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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-See DebianLinux
.
+Debian is a [GNU]/[Linux] distribution. The name comes from the founder of the project, Ian Murdock, and his wife, Debra. Hence "Deb" and "Ian"
.
-''Either this page should go
, and links fixed
to point to DebianLinux, or vice versa
. Which do we want
? --AristotlePagaltzis''
+If you use Debian
, you tend
to love Debian
. Why
?
-''We should wait for the new PhpWiki and use the
'automatically take me to this page
' feature
. People will always create wrong links and
it's
easy to cover
the bases
. --CraigBox
''
+__Non-commercial__ :
+ It
's not controlled by a corporate entity.
+__Huge package archive__ :
+ Debian packages over 11,000 pieces of software. You can install almost anything by just typing <tt>apt-get install
''package
''</tt>, with package dependencies handled for you
. No more rabbiting around the internet for an [RPM] that might do what you want
it to do!
+__Runs on
''lots'' of platforms__ :
+ i386, Motorola 68k, Alpha, Sparc, PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, IA64 (Itanium) and S390. AMD64 coming soon!
+__Incredibly
easy to maintain__ :
+ <tt>apt-get upgrade</tt> every night and you'll be running
the latest versions of everything
.
+__Very true to Linux__ :
+ Some purists dont like RedHat
's directory structures. It
's also pragmatic __and__ ideological; what you know as Debian today is Debian GNU/Linux, and they are also looking at Debian GNU/HURD.
-''That would be cool
, although I don't like that "symlink" solution as much as Wikipedia's, where pages can have multiple names
. But it's better than nothing, at least. At any rate, it's us, the gnomes, who links a lot of things in the first place; does it make a lot of extra difference when people do create links, but the wrong ones? --AristotlePagaltzis''
+Often imitated
, never beaten
.
-''I'm
not manually renaming
the page on all its backlinks. ;) There
is a ~RenamePage feature in
the new wiki as well
, but not all references
to [Debian
] will suit being
a reference to DebianLinux
, and vice versa
. Maybe
the feature will filter through from ~MediaWiki eventually
. Not everything
that everyone does
is necesarily groomed by
the gnoomes
. -- CraigBox''
+There are some reasons
not to like Debian,
the most obvious of which
is that
the "stable" distribution
, while historically __very__ stable, achieves this by being up
to three years 'out of date'.
[Ubuntu
],
a derivative of Debian
, addresses this by having regular (six-monthly) release cycles
. Also, Debian has a mentality of "we have official packages for everything", meaning that $new_thing has to be uploaded into
the repository before you can get it
. However, more people are packaging things in third party repositories
that you can add to your AptSourcesList, and you can always install things from source.
+
+The Debian PackageManagement format
is [.deb|Deb]. See DebianPackaging on how to create these, or DebianPackageTools for how to use dpkg(8)/[APT]/other programs that install .deb packages.
+
+See NewZealandLinuxMirrors for places in NewZealand to get [Deb]s/[ISO]s.
+
+debian.org have an [online FAQ | http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/]; we have a local DebianFaq as well as some handy DebianNotes.
+
+Read about
the different FlavoursOfDebian
.
+
+For people who want to install DebianLinux but are scared off by stories about its installer, there's [The Very Verbose Debian 3.0 Installation Walkthrough | http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2016].
+
+See also:
+* [ Debian Wiki | http://wiki.debian.net]
+* [ A Debian Grimoire | http://deb.riseup.net/ ]
+* [ Debian Help (UK) | http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ ]
+
+
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+Part of CategoryDistribution and CategoryDebian
