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dfc · 2014-04-08 07:04:00+00:00

How is that different than being subscribed to debian-spanish@l.d.o and not subscribing to debian-japanese@l.d.o? Or subscribing to debian-devel-spanish@l.d.o and and not subscribing to debian-devel-french or debian-devel-portugese?

fomine3 | karma 4883 | avg karma 0.96 · | 2022-08-25 01:13:22

Maybe DDG is good replacement for English users, but I wonder does debian developers considered is it fine for global users.

3v1n0 | karma 168 | avg karma 1.54 · | 2021-06-03 17:05:35

Also debian uses conditional rules on some packages whether something is for debian, ubuntu or a derivative

jopsen | karma 4072 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2018-02-18 06:45:49+00:00

Which has same problems... this isn't really about debian, but distributions in general.

umanwizard | karma 14757 | avg karma 2.5 · | 2022-08-06 18:39:02

The point was that some software in Debian works the Debian way, and other doesn’t.

nerdponx | karma 22397 | avg karma 2.51 · | 2017-12-20 14:12:23

What is that reason? They enforce strict guidelines about using their logo and name that are incompatible with Debian policy?

checkyoursudo | karma 2181 | avg karma 2.39 · | 2023-11-06 11:16:02

And yet, saying you use Debian b could plausibly mean any of those anyway. Several of my servers are stuck on Debian b, and I am not 100% sure which b it is.

nickpsecurity | karma 14152 | avg karma 1.39 · | 2015-10-29 16:06:46+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. Debian makes sense in that light.

BCM43 | karma 2619 | avg karma 7.14 · | 2011-02-06 04:08:31+00:00

Does your username have anything to do with Debian?

GNU_James | karma 211 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2021-03-12 18:27:20+00:00

Who? That's not how you spell Debian.

eikenberry | karma 3875 | avg karma 2.15 · | 2021-11-08 13:25:22

All Debian based distros are this way, not just Ubuntu.

AnthonyMouse | karma 32571 | avg karma 2.49 · | 2018-10-06 21:12:04

They technically have defaults, but when the difference for most distributions (e.g. Debian) is just checking a different box in the installer, it seems like a silly thing to complain about.

rubyist5eva | karma 1522 | avg karma 1.28 · | 2021-08-14 11:33:48

Personally, I moved to CentOS from Debian (and then to AlmaLinux OS) because of DNF modules. You get multiple versions of different language runtimes and you can pick the ones you want to use - so I stick to the LTS versions. You aren't necessarily stuck to just one packaged version of a language runtime now.

mkj | karma 2334 | avg karma 2.84 · | 2023-08-26 04:10:02

The debian ones seem to have more bespoke languages to learn rather than shell script fragments, and more mystery dh-* things that need to be known.

debiandev | karma 154 | avg karma 2.57 · | 2019-03-12 10:57:55+00:00

This is a misunderstanding of how Debian works.

cbmuser | karma 2019 | avg karma 3.29 · | 2021-01-13 12:09:45+00:00

It’s also not very Debian-specific. It applies to openSUSE as well, for example.

madez | karma 3080 | avg karma 2.26 · | 2017-08-15 01:17:07+00:00

I use Debian and I do not like to manage the Debian system with Debian packages. I use Debian because it is the community-backed distro.

vacri | karma 17701 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2016-07-17 22:04:24

If you know Debian, they're not, but if you go through the website like a new user, they are.

DiabloD3 | karma 46674 | avg karma 5.84 · | 2016-11-28 21:58:14

I think you meant Debian.

hackmiester | karma 1374 | avg karma 2.39 · | 2020-05-19 01:48:50

But those things apply to Linux distributions too, e.g., Debian.