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Debian vs. Ubuntu: What's the Difference?

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday July 16 2017, @09:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the for-the-Linux-noobs dept.

canopic jug writes:

Datamation examines the Debian and Ubuntu distros in detail by starting with the question, what is the difference between Debian and Ubuntu? Neither GNU/Linux distro has been out of Distrowatch's top six since 2005, and for the last four years neither has been out of the top three. There are good reasons for that. Though if systemd is not your cup of tea, there is also a Debian fork, Devuan, which is basically Debian GNU/Linux minus systemd.

[Ed Note: For many in the community who are Linux experts, this article may have no appeal. For those of us that are new to it and trying to learn, something this basic is a nice read and contains good information.]

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:57PM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:57PM (#539915) Homepage

    " Debian, on the other hand, had little problem with usability, "

    Hahahahah, what?! You can run a server on it but not much else. Nigbuntu Linux is the king of usable distros. Even if Shuttleworth wanted to be Steve Jobs and shitted up the UI.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 16 2017, @05:14PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 16 2017, @05:14PM (#539943) Journal

    More nonsense. Damned near half of the distros in existence are derived from Debian, directly or indirectly. Anything that runs on Linux of any flavor, will run on Debian. Or, maybe more to the point, anything that won't run on Debian probably won't run on any *nix-like OS. Whatever it is, it can almost certainly be ported to Debian. For myself, I've loved the Enlightenment desktop since I first saw it on the Elive livecd. http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=elive [distrowatch.com]

    I'm not real great at installing and configuring a desktop environment, but other people are great at it. For that reason, I've hopped around between a few distros that have made E available, preconfigured, for dummies like myself.

    inxi -F
    System: Host: expansive Kernel: 4.11.0-9.1-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit)
                          Desktop: Enlightenment 0.19.99.20573 Distro: SparkyLinux 5 (Nibiru)

    True, it may not be "pure Debian", but it's Debian with my favorite DE on it. It all depends on how you define "pure".

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @09:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @09:13PM (#540030)

      Bodhi Linux used that by default for years.

      The Bodhi devs became disenchanted with E18 and forked E17 to produce the Moksha Desktop.

      Elive

      Years back, the chief dev was having a hard time paying his bills and turned that distro into payware, making only old binaries/code available--and you had to jump through a bunch of hoops to get that. 8-(

      The community took over the project and undid that.

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