Debian operating system

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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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Red Hat shitstorm (self.debian)

submitted 1 year ago by 9488fcea02a9 to c/[email protected]

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Everyone is getting jerked around by IBM and now Oracle adding to the drama

Meanwhile my servers are stable and debian development keeps quietly chugging along with minimal noise

Just wanted to say how much i love the debian project and all the contributors

People should recommend debian more

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You do know that you can get more up to date packages from other sources?

I get nginx from them and PHP from an ex deb dev

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Plus everything is in containers now so you can pull or build what you like