Debian
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What is Debian?
The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian.
An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. At the core of an operating system is the kernel. The kernel is the most fundamental program on the computer and does all the basic housekeeping and lets you start other programs.
Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.
However, work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, primarily for the Hurd. The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on top of a microkernel (such as Mach) to implement different features. The Hurd is free software produced by the GNU project.
A large part of the basic tools that fill out the operating system come from the GNU project; hence the names: GNU/Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD, and GNU/Hurd. These tools are also free.
Of course, the thing that people want is application software: programs to help them get what they want to do done, from editing documents to running a business to playing games to writing more software. Debian comes with over 51000 packages (precompiled software that is bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine), a package manager (APT), and other utilities that make it possible to manage thousands of packages on thousands of computers as easily as installing a single application. All of it free.
It's a bit like a tower. At the base is the kernel. On top of that are all the basic tools. Next is all the software that you run on the computer. At the top of the tower is Debian — carefully organizing and fitting everything so it all works together.
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Debian is super stable and highly customizable. If you want a Linux distribution that provides guaranteed stability and a great community, you should check out Debian.
The foundation of other exceptional distros, like Ubuntu and Mint. Stable and has a good amount of software.
Debian 11 is late with glibc 2.34...
glibc 2.34 is almost one year old. glibc 2.31 is two years old.
https://packages.debian.org/en/bullseye/libc6
Debian 12 (bookworm) will have just 2.33-7.
https://packages.debian.org/en/bookworm/libc6
Only experimental repository has 2.34-0experimental4...
Because Debian focuses on stability, it's not Fedora or Arch, their distros get updates real late because of stability testing. Its not a con its a pro in many eyes sutch as mine.
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Many people recommend RHEL or recommended CentOS when it was still supported, after using Debian for my homelab in every server and VM I see no point in using RHEL or any other distribution because Debian can do it ALL!
Lots of documentation if problem happens and chances are you aren't the only one with that problem so quick search solves it all!
Super stable and fast, requires very little resources to run and if you dont want to run it headless like I do, just install WM or DE of your choice and have fun.
In conclusion it is 1/10 distro which is highly capable as a server distro, perhaps even #1 server distro if people quit using RHEL.
The installer literally does not work. You will wait upwards of an hour to install this barebones OS and what do you get for your trouble? "no boot device detected". Honestly, if you can't even bother to make the installer work, why would I care what other broken garbage you've called an OS? 0/10 nonfunctional
It's a you problem, everything always worked for me, it's a bit confusing on their website which I would say is their biggest con, website truly is trash, hard to find image that you want for example deb 11 non-free
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They use mailing lists and IRC for public discussions... At least they have a proper bug tracker as alternative.
Debian packages have no reviews at all in 2022...
https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages