Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 14th Apr 2007 18:43 UTC, submitted by deanlinkous
"For much of its history, Debian has been the major noncommercial, philosophically free distribution. Now, as Debian developers and users have deserted the distro for Ubuntu, does Debian have a purpose any more? Debian 4.0, which was released this week, represents a collective effort to answer that question. The philosophy behind the release is best summarized on the home page for the Debian on the Desktop subproject, which states, 'We will do everything we can to make things very easy for the novice, while allowing the expert to tweak things'."
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2005-07-24
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Get a grip man, who uses debians children for servers?
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Already have one, thank you very much! ;-)
But why *not* use them (the children) as servers? They have the same stable Debian core. They simply have value added features and better gui tools. As Debian fans have been stating and restating for years, apt-get makes getting the software set that you want installed a breeze... for any of the members of the Debian family.
The real problem that all of the Debian family has in the server space, though, is that the RHEL/CentOS duo have such compelling advantages over them.