Why should people care about Debian?

Posted Dec 12, 2016 12:35 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Why should people care about Debian? by guillemj
Parent article: Maintainerless Debian?

> It also did not require many changes to make it build and work on non-Linux systems.

"did not require many changes" rather undermisnes the argument that it is universal. (it uses all sorts of kernel-, libc-, and even compiler-specific bits)

But thanks for the correction.

> Also start-stop-daemon (provided by dpkg), which is the foundation most init scripts in Debian are based on, works also on any of the BSDs, Mac OS X, AIX and should work on Solaris and HP-UX too.

Speaking for AIX, OSX and Solaris specifically (I can't comment on the BSDs or HPUX), start-stop-daemon may technically run but will clash with their native tools (src, launchd and smf, respectively).

Also, even on the pure Linux side of things, start-stop-daemon is only guaranteed to exist (and be remotely up-to-date) on Debian and its derivatives.