I'd have to disagree with the server comment.
In the enterprise space, there is very little Debian. You'll be looking
at SUSE and Red Hat in that space. That said, those two are the most
stable/dependable when it comes to running production servers.
Also ,your statement about the packaging management system is nothing
more than opinion.
Debian may be the best for you, and that is perfectly fine, but I would
point out there is a lot of bias in that conclusion.
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On 07/03/16 01:41 PM, Yves Legault wrote:
Here is my personal path in the Linux world:
- Caldera Linux, before 1999 It was not easy to find and install
the proper video and audio drivers back then!
- Red Hat 7 8 and 9, somewhere between 2002 and 2003
- Fedora Core1, 2, 3 and 4, from about 2003 to 2005
- Debian 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and currently 8, from about 2006 until today.
- I have been using UbuntuStudio for music related work for few
years. Beside some issues with updates, I never had problem with
this distribution which has a lot of goodies included in their
default setup.
- There has also been short trials of Suse, Mandraque,
DamnSmallLinux, Ubuntu and more recently Mint.
- Knoppix is also to be noted as I used it some times to rescue
windows as well as Linux machines sometimes.
- Since Debian is likely the most stable OS there is, it can
behave as an OS, meaning I can forget about it's existence while
getting ahead with my work.
- It is the father, or grand father of over 60% of all linux
distributions.
- In the desktop OS it is not the most popular, but not by much.
- It is the best distribution when server installation comes
to mind, which is a tribute to it's stability.
- It has the best packaging management system there is.
- Updates very rarely create issues.
- Now a day, the Debian installer does provide a choice of
desktop at install time. Gnome, KDE, Xfce and LXDE are among
the choices available. This is the single most important
improvement that recently occurred with Debian, allowing
installation of a GUI (or not) on vintage machines, giving
them a second life.
My main PC is currently built around 120GB SSD for the operating
system, 1TB HDD for the /home folder, 12GB SDRAM, AMD Phenom X4 925
CPU and a GeForce 9500GT video card connected to two 27 inches
screens, a scanner, a webcam and an HP2600N printer.
This setup has been running virtually unstopped since 2012... Except
for 3 power failures, a few times when I moved the PC to another room,
a dead UPS battery that needed to be swapped, and annual heatsink dust
cleanup.
I have several PC's running Debian around the house, most of them have
a up time of more than 2 months. There is a small 9 inches screen
eeePC that ran for over 387 days without a reboot.
I am currently running these softwares on my main PC form time to time:
- Eclipse, especially for software development with atmel MCU's in
mind.
- MPLABX for Microchip MCU's development.
- Arduino IDE
- DOSBOX to run some old DOS games I still like to play sometimes.
- Oracle's VirtualBox, when I need access to several machines at
the same time to do network topology development or when a friend
need help on Windows stuff.
- LibreOffice applications.
- Do not forgent the web browser Iceweasel and the Evolution mail
client, which are quite often the most used.
So, for the last 10 years, I can say that Debian Linux has held it
together without major issues for me.
Therefore, I conclude with the personal understanding that Debian is
the overall best distribution there is.
All the above being said, note that we have seen over 800 Linux
distributions created that had some significance, although there might
be less than 300 currently available. This is more than enough choices
to pick from when a specific need comes around.
Sources:
https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&origin=All&basedon=All¬basedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=All&isosize=All&netinstall=All&status=All
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
YLL
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