> Debian is a different class of Linux distro. It's a very good distro. It > has all those powerful tools (namely, apt) and thousands upon thousands > of packages (although some are not legal to be used in the US, namely, > the "non-US").
Actually, non-US is reserved for packages and software that cannot be exported from the US, and therefore is developed and hosted elsewhere in the world. The main reason for this distinction is that this software cannot be retrieved from a US server by anyone overseas, or also because they cannot be stored on a US server due to patent issues. See this link for more explanation of the different package repositories: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Regards, Ben Pitzer --------------------------------------------- "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Ben Franklin-- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
