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Debian Review (Distrowatch)
Distrowatch reviews
Debian GNU/Linux. "Debian - there has never been any other Linux
distro quite like it. Long a favorite of the geek elite, there is no doubt
that Debian is popular. Sign up for the Debian-user mailing list, and you
can expect to receive about 300 messages a day. Perhaps (just perhaps)
there are more people using Redhat, Mandrake or SuSE. However, if bigger
means better, then Debian is the undisputed champion - Debian's "stable"
branch boasts 8710 "packages" (packages = precompiled software bundled up
in a nice format for easy installation). In Debian's "unstable" branch
there are about 13,000 packages (more than six gigabytes worth). If
software was sold by the kilogram, then Debian would fetch top
dollar. However, this massive collection of excellent software is free, the
work of hundreds (or thousands) of unpaid volunteers. Put that in your pipe
and smoke it."
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