Debian joins Desktop Linux Consortium

Debian joins Desktop Linux Consortium

Posted Feb 8, 2003 19:09 UTC (Sat) by erich (subscriber, #7127)
In reply to: Debian joins Desktop Linux Consortium by JoeBuck
Parent article: Debian joins Desktop Linux Consortium

Mind you, Knoppix was shipped with a few PC Magazines in Germany these days, there's Lindows, there's Xandros, there's the Debian Desktop Project...
Even my father and my mother are working on a Debian Desktop System.

The survey certainly is biased towards Debian (as the Debian Developers are a quite big and active community) but Debian IS not only for servers.
Debian has a smooth upgrade path (not losing all your settings!) from Gnome 1.x to 2.2; it has KDE 3.1 in unstable as well, Debian had had the best menu system for a long time (some Distributions even adopted it from Debian) and it certainly has one of the biggest software choice available.

Also i remember that Debian won the Distribution Award (followed by Knoppix, then Suse) by the german "Linux Magazin". That one was a jury choice.

Even if Debian is not everybodys choice (and i do understand why some prefer Mandrake, Redhat, EasyLinux and so on) it is still a good choice - and i did not want to try a different distribution yet, because i'm happy with Debian on my Desktop.

Most problems people are having with Debian can be solved easily - we're maintaining a big FAQ in german at http://channel.debian.de/faq/ that answers most questions people do ask.

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