By Jose Luis Zapata / ALT1040
Original link: http://alt1040.com/2011/03/% C2% BFse-about-death-of -debian
Debian distributions of Linux oldest and most tradition began in 1993 by Ian Murdock and his famous manifesto Debian. Today many distros modern and popular Debian derived from , but since the release of its latest version 6.0 Debian "Squeeze" has been a very heated debate about whether the project is still important or is doomed to die.
There have been many articles that have addressed the issue of "the imminent death of Debian" , sometimes even with a bit of sensationalism as this article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nic hols and others simply follow the discussion. Most people criticize the fact that it is so strict in its decision not to include firmwares that are not free, the total exclusion of any proprietary content, for example using Iceweasel a fork Firefox to which you have removed the copyright elements such as logo-and it is attacked because its development has been "very slow."
In some of these articles I have read that " Ubuntu [...] is now the revolutionary Linux distribution Debian once was. " The article goes on to other views like this:
[...] at the moment, Ubuntu continues to expand HEARING Debian Linux while still a system that only hardcore fans would use Debian Linux.
And while it is true that many of the great innovations we see in the world of Linux from Ubuntu , psucede not always so. There are many things happening with Debian and Ubuntu is happy to do so. We must not ever forget what Mark Shuttleworth said about this topic:
Debian is the rock upon which Ubuntu is built. Yes
Ubuntu project benefits greatly from Debian and Debian to turn out benefited from Ubuntu. Ubuntu would not exist without Debian-only need to remember that 74% of the packets that make up the distro from Debian, so Ubuntu if it is still important, Debian has to be important too .
Now, the question that everyone wants to do: is Debian only for hardcore fans , Orthodox Linux users with much knowledge? No, definitely not.
Perhaps for a novice or someone who just comes to the Linux world change (or absence) of firmware can cause headaches. Yet always told in the installation or upgrade process when something could cause problems. Moreover, it is difficult to find repositories with firmwares not free, in fact to Debian gives us a choice for these cases (although it is listed as "unofficial" to avoid confusion.)
I have seen many users switch from Ubuntu to Debian when they are comfortable with Linux and have a little more experience. While the relationship between Debian and Ubuntu will continue to operate benieficiarán the two, since any improvement in Debian means improved Ubuntu and many other distros derived from Debian.
No, Debian is far from dead. I dare say Debian is more alive than ever .
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