Your opinion counts: Opinion about Debian

We return to the load with the section: Your opinion counts, this time with the email of a user named perseus.

Perseus tells us:

Greetings to all the members of DesdeLinux, I congratulate you for the blog (it is one of my favorites ;-)) this time I would like to know your opinion about it.

I have used Archlinux, pc linux os y LMDE (distros that I know are rolling release or resemble the concept), my question is, which of these 3 distros is most similar to debian? I have never tried it for being 'Outdated but Stable' (I stole this phrase from burjans: P).

I love rollings like arch, as I love knowing that I can have up-to-date packages and not have to wait a long time for them to be included in their software lists or for them to come out in the next release (like PCLinuxOS).

If you could expand this topic further (how to install it, what and how many types of versions there are as well as their differences, desktop environments, technical data, etc.), seen clearly from their own experiences, it would be great. Who knows, maybe I would like to try it once and for all ;-).

DesdeLinux answer back:

First of all, thank you very much for your words to me. Desdelinux.

Curiously, there is something that you have apparently overlooked: If you have used Debian : D. If as well you tell us you used LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) Well, you already have then. We remind you that LMDE is the version of Linux Mint which is based on Debian Squeeze / Testing.

About the Burjans phrase I can only tell you that there is part and part. It all depends on how up to date you want to be. Debian has the branch Stable (which is what I imagine burjans refers to), the branch Testing and the branch Sid. You can read more about this here..

In my case I use Testing, and I have the latest (stable) versions of many packages, example:

  • iceweasel 7.0.1
  • LibreOffice 3.4.3
  • Turpial 1.6.5 ~ b6-1

Among others.

Now, it is true that neither version of Debian consist of rolling release how can they be Archlinux o PCLinuxOS.

Of course we can address this topic a little more in depth, and if you want, you can download a PDF about its installation which you can find in this post. In this guide you can see how to install debian-squeeze (current Stable branch) and how to customize some details.


Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked with *

*

*

  1. Responsible for the data: Miguel Ángel Gatón
  2. Purpose of the data: Control SPAM, comment management.
  3. Legitimation: Your consent
  4. Communication of the data: The data will not be communicated to third parties except by legal obligation.
  5. Data storage: Database hosted by Occentus Networks (EU)
  6. Rights: At any time you can limit, recover and delete your information.

  1.   burjans said

    I see that Perseus did not steal the entire sentence from the article:

    http://www.com-sl.org/actualizaciones-para-debian-testing-26102011.html

    where I say and quote:

    It is more than clear that the Debian guys want to leave behind the little 'Outdated but Stable' sign, to make it 'Up to date and Stable'.

    hello2 😉

  2.   Courage said

    haz

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    http://www.rae.es

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      😛 I don't know what you are talking about and by the way in the RAE you are doing but you haven't .. Or I don't know how to use the dictionary? 😕

      1.    Thirteen said

        "Has" is "to have"; and "do" is to "do."

        And on the subject, the truth is difficult to complain about Debian once you are clear about the difference between "stable", "testing" and "sid". That it makes us non-computer scientists suffer, there is no doubt, but the mentholates are doing a great job at LMDE, making things much easier for us.
        Greetings.

        1.    elav <° Linux said

          After Courage tried to rectify me, I was in doubt (I can be wrong, I am a human being). I am not an expert in Spanish language so I started looking, although in the pages to which I have access I could not find anything. I read superficially that the "beam" of "do" is used in the imperative, example: Do this I send it to you the hell! 😀 Then Thirteen, in the case of the article How is it? Do you use "has" or "do"?
          😕

          1.    elav <° Linux said

            I know, a Spanish teacher clarified for me. Courage was right ¬¬

          2.    Thirteen said

            In the text it should say, "you have already done it" as it refers to "having" done something. As a tip, the "beam" can always be replaced by "performs" instead the "has" cannot be replaced.

            For example, in your statement you cannot substitute for "perform" as it would read as: "already 'performs' done", which is meaningless.

            On the other hand, if you say: "Do your homework", then if you can substitute "do your homework."

            1.    elav <° Linux said

              Thanks for the classes, the same thing the Spanish teacher explained to me hahaha ..

              [Memo to me: You have to study more .. much more ...]


  3.   Courage said

    The only thing I can say about Debian is that is a shitty 3-pair distro of balls and that I prefer a thousand times to use Hasefroch hacked to the bars of the shitty Debian of the balls, I don't even know how that open source Hasefroch is still alive

    Hahahaha

    Come seriously

    I did not like her because of her intolerance to packages with the slightest recorded nonsense, if it had not been for that I would have stayed with her for a while.

    For the rest at that time I did not present stability problems and the speed was quite good

    For a server it seems like a very good idea, as it can be BSD or Slackware.

    For us to understand each other, Debian is like a blonde and Arch is like a brunette, my favorites

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      If Debian were like a blonde, it wouldn't use it because I prefer brunettes. If you can please define this:

      I did not like her because of her intolerance to packages with the slightest recorded nonsense, if it had not been for that I would have stayed with her for a while.

      1.    Courage said

        Ah, it is that it is 100% free, you do not want anything with the slightest registration

  4.   Edward2 said

    Well, Debian has all my respects, and more if they try to be both stable (as the stable branch has always been), and updated. While using it I only had one problem and it was with the unstable branch, that's why I always say that debian unstable is really unstable. But hey, whoever messes with something testing or unstable, has to know what to expect or at least expect a failure at some point.

    From the rest robust as an oak tree and after Arch, Debian. (I like gentoo, but in a quilombo as the Argentines say)