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Often imitated, never beaten.
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which is that the "stable" distribution, while historically __very__ stable, achieves this by being up to three years 'out of date'.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.
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+Read about the different FlavoursOfDebian.
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+!Packaging in Debian
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.
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+!Acquiring Debian
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.
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-Read about the different FlavoursOfDebian.
+!Learn more
-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]
.
+There
are a LOT of great
Debian web pages on the internet
. Here are but a few
...
-See also
:
+* WLUG's DebianNotes
+* [ Debian's official FAQ | http
://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/];
* [ Debian Wiki | http://wiki.debian.net]
+* [ #debian FAQ wiki | http://www.linuks.mine.nu/debian-faq-wiki/ ]
+* [ Debian Administration | http://www.debian-administration.org/ ]
* [ A Debian Grimoire | http://deb.riseup.net/ ]
* [ Debian Help (UK) | http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ ]
+* [ Planet Debian (blog aggregator) | http://planet.debian.org ]
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