I only tried a few other distros, and most of them were Debian-based. Here are the top 10 reasons for which I enjoy using Debian:
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2. CommunityCommunity is great, and I'm talking about both the forums at forums.debian.net and the official #debian channel on OFTC. Debian still has a channel on Freenode, which actually [...]

I wasn't able to boot Damn Small Linux 4.4 RC1 on the machine I really need it to run on — the $15 Laptop (aka Compaq Armada 7770dmt) — so I booted it on my VIA C3 Samuel test box, the machine that ran my two Puppy Linux torture tests.
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Clearly, some shortcomings in how Debian handles patches to the programs it ships have been revealed; now the project would like to face those problems and make things work better in the future. The resulting discussion shows Debian at its introspective best, and may well have results that other distributors will want to pay attention [...]

The massive computing effort is done at the ATLAS Debian GNU / Linux 1342 nodes cluster, achieving measured performance in terms of top500.org linpack of 32.8 TFlops, with a theoretical peak of about 50 TFlops, using 10+ TB RAM, approximately 1.3 PB storage
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According to Dr. Grunewald, Merlin Debian GNU [...]

In an effort to increase our visibility (besides those pesky REJECTsFrom NEW) we decided to post a little mail in the style of the famous“Bits from whoever” you all seem to love.
Hi everyone,
in an effort to increase our visibility (besides those pesky REJECTsFrom NEW) we decided to post a little mail in the style of [...]

I’ve been assessing the possibility of switching GNU/Linux Matters‘ servers (which are all powered by Debian) to Ubuntu, and I have finally decided to go for it.
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FTP has been the standard way to do this for as long as I can remember so to make my server as useful as possible Installing an FTP server is a very important program. For the purpose of my server I will be using ProFTPD.
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You should now have a working FTP server. The [...]

So I got open-iscsi working on debian, in so much that I had four disks, two to the ‘preferred controller’ were good but the two to the second controller weren’t. Switching the preferred controller
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After installing multipath-tools I started looking at dmsetup but the target types listed in the man page: linear, striped [...]

The recent discovery of a potentially serious Secure Socket Layer (SSL) flaw affecting a popular Linux distribution should act as a wake up call to the open source community, experts warn.
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John Pescatore, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, called for open source developers and their vendor counterparts to improve communications processes to [...]

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver, released under a BSD license. Version 1.0.0 was released on May 20, 2008. This tutorial explains how to install and use it on Debian Etch, including the creation of zones for your own domains.
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This guide will detail a number of processes I have implemented on my mail server in the hope of reducing Spam coming through to my email boxes. This guide will cut down on spam by ensuring the correct Connection request is done.
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The previous guides on the website have explained how to set up [...]

This is a status update for the Debian Menu transition from Bill Alombert.
Dear developers,
This is a status update for the Debian Menu transition.
0) /usr/lib/menu-> /usr/share/menuThere are still 48 packages with menu entries in /usr/lib/menu.Please fix them. I will consider such packages NMU candidates.
1) About 60% of menu files had been updated to the new menu [...]

As I mentioned before, not only speed was important, but also the user-friendliness: how easily I can connect the system to a Windows-network (share), what graphical setup-utilities are available, if there's a package manager and how it works,…
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DSL is a really fast distribution, but it has some problems concerning installing additional software. Because [...]

I’ve installed a light Linux system on my Asus Pundit P1 PC based on the Debian Etch distribution – the stable branch.
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That is around 200Mb of download (hence the need to have a DHCP detectable broadband internet connection) and takes about 10 minutes to load up. Xorg asked about my no-name LCD [...]

At CamVine we've been using the scons build utility as a replacement for our old make-based system. Sometimes it can be slightly non-intuitive, but we haven't had anything like the depths of confusion that can occur in a big complex system using make
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Of the options which appealed to me, only Fedora and Debian had official PowerPC support. I ended up going with Debian.
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Yes, Debian had a rather colossal screwup with SSL recently, and yes, it is not as exciting as its progeny Ubuntu. However, one of the things I really appreciate about Debian is its [...]

Steve McIntyre sent a new “Bits from the DPL” mail. A serious issue in Debians OpenSSL package has been fixed recently. Debian is discussing about an archive strucure for huge packages.
—————————————————————————Debian Weekly Newshttp://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2008/03/Debian Weekly News – May 26th, 2008—————————————————————————
Welcome to this year's 3rd issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debiancommunity. Steve McIntyre sent a [...]

eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated.
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It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of [...]

The following document describes how to install debian etch server on a dedicated 1&1 AMD 64-bit server.
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Install minimal Debian Etch installation via 1&1 fronted.
As no SSH control is yet installed, you have to connect via your terminal (e.g. putty, or Mac OS terminal). The string should look somehow like:

This document aims at clarifying the policies and workflows used for NMUs inside Debian. Its main goal is to provide a patch to section 5.11 of the Debian Developer's Reference, adressing the current issues regarding NMUs.
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This is the second call for comments (long overdue) on DEP1. (DEPs aredescribed in DEP0[0]). This document aims at [...]

In broad terms, antiX M7.2 is a community-driven project to combine a Mepis 7.2 base (kernel is 2.6.22-1-mepis-smp) with the vast Debian package repositories and the Fluxbox and IceWM window managers.
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Would I recommend antiX?Yes, but only for experienced Lxers: It's simply not suitable for Linux newbies, given the slightly esoteric nature of [...]

In this example we will use RPM package of virtualbox 1.60 (renamed it to test.rpm to make life easier), convert it to debian package and than convert that debian package back to RPM.
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I can hardly believe that I'm composing an entry in Movable Type Open Source 4.1 using Damn Small Linux.
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Now that version 4.3 of the low-spec Linux distribution has added Firefox 2 to its software mix, I can use the browser — here named Bon Echo for reasons that escape me — for [...]

Following on from my recommendation for apt-buglist—where you can see the reported bugs on a package before installing it—I thought it might be useful to look at the other side of the coin, reporting bugs in Debian.
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Reporting bugs is a very simple way to get involved with the free software community. Using a [...]

If you don't have an Eee PC, you can still run Linux from a humble USB flash disk, which will hold not only Linux but also your data. Several Linux distributions run from flash; here's how some of them compare.
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Of the two mini distros, I found DSL more useful because of the neater [...]

The Debian GNU/Linux project has just endured what is probably its worst week on the security front in the 15 years of its existence following the disclosure on May 13 of a serious vulnerability in the distribution's OpenSSL package.
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While this was achieved, the removal of the second line also removed all [...]

Pootle is a user-friendly web application for online translation of contents. It’s used by organizations like Creative Commons, OpenOffice.org and GNU/Linux Matters.
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I’m going to show you how to install it the easiest way, from my experience with the GLM Translation Service under Debian 4.0 (this guide might also work under Ubuntu, though). I’ll [...]

Many people have had fingers pointed at them, but it is not really interesting who made the mistake: everyone makes mistakes. What's interesting is the situation that encouraged making the mistake and that made it possible not to notice it for almost two years.
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I've spent a lot of the past decade maintaining [...]

Things don't usually go as smoothly as we'd like. I had better luck with my computers. As you know I made the switch to Mepis 7.0 and it just works.
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My second machine, a 32 bitter took a major change, I removed Mepis 7.0 (is this guy fickle or what?) and swapped and reformatted [...]

The Debian team has provided a tool that can be used to determine if any such weak keys exist on the system, and it can be run by anyone, regardless of whether they use Debian or not.
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A recent vulnerability was found in the OpenSSL package as provided by Debian and Debian-based Linux [...]