Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The thing about Debian is that it had most of things I was looking for > in a distro, at the time I was distro-hopping: > > 1) A democratic and community based distro [...] > 2) A distribution that supports free software [...] > 3) Stability [...] > 4) Rolling releases [...] > 5) A Strong Foundation [...] > 6) A Great Package Manager [...] > 7) A Large community
I would add: 8) The Policy Although not very obvious, Debian Policy is responsible that 6) provides 3),4), ... You can have the best package management ever invented (which APT probably is), but you wouldn't be able to have the rolling and stable releases with broken packages. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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