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<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.
-There are some reasons not to like Debian, the most obvious of which is that packages
have to be uploaded into the repository before you can get them
. You
can always install things from source, or use other peoples' ''experimental'' .deb sources just by changing your AptSourcesList. See NewZealandLinuxMirrors for places in NewZealand to get [Deb]s/[ISO]s
.
+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which is that the "stable" distribution, while historically __very__ stable, achieves this by being up to three years 'out of date'.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 DebianLinux PackageManagement format is [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.
