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Re:Leaderless Debian by aargh_aargh on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @11:22AM (#19368999)
Why Debian? It values freedom:

  A) of software - DFSG
  B) of decisionmaking - Debian constitution
  C) of choice
Stemming from that, there are the following advantages I value (opinion ahead):

  * both installed program and source is just an apt command away (A, C)
  * has a large repository of software (historically largest; nowadays it's still among the largest) (A, C)
  * security support for stable release for the whole archive (cf. Ubuntu, RHEL) (A)
  * software from repository aims to play nice together (C)
  * true community distro, independent from any single vendor (B)
  * multiple kernels, multiple desktop environments, multiple init systems, a truckload of architectures (C)
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Re:Leaderless Debian by linuxftw on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @12:49PM (#19370201)
True community distro is what I was going to say as well. I view Debian as 'plain old linux.'

My fear though, is Debian is not going to be able to keep up with the pace of commercial linux distributions. Things are moving at light speed these days.

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Re:Leaderless Debian by checkyoursudo on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:36PM (#19374178)
Not keep up in what way? Package version freshness? Relatively recent kernels?
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