Sunday, February 14, 2010
Living on the wild side with Debian Sid
One can say that I'm a bit obsessed with Linux distributions because I am very particular about which distributions I dedicate my machines to. I've gone from Ubuntu (because they seem to have a failing business model), from Debian stable (because the packages are too old for laptop/desktop use) and more recently (today), I decided to leave Fedora because of their patent paranoia. Fedora is nice but RedHat does not want to be sued, so they do not include free software that is covered by software patents meaning they are a lot of free software that you can get by default. So I decided to go hardcore and install Debian Unstable (which is bleeding edge) on both my laptop and desktop. So far so good, since Debian sid is permanent, I will never have to do another stupid distribution upgrade every 6 months. Plus, I will get a chance to contribute back to the Debian project by reporting bugs. I really like Debian because it's packaged by regular people like you and me with no company affiliation. I love the community of volunteers who have real jobs but help package Debian on the weekends and late nights. I like the idea of a global community working together to provide an open operating system outside of the influence of stockholders and so on. Debian unstable does require some bravery, so one should properly vet this option if you are considering it.
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