Why debian rocks
It has been quite some time, actually years, since I started using Debian. Earlier I have used various flavors of Linux like SuSE, Red Hat, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntoo but my experience with Debian has been so far the best. I just thought to write the reasons for which I really like Debian compared to other systems.
1. Excellent package management tools
I find that the package management tools that Debian offers is really fantastic. There are host of tools like Synaptic, Aptitude, Apt, dpkg, dselect etc. which one can choose based on how much one is comfortable with command line, TUI or GUI. One can easily choose and configure from where to install the package i.e. CD, standard Debian repositories hosted around the world, or some special Debian package repositories. Given I have my Debian CDs downloaded in ISO format, I can choose to loop mount them and install packages from them without the need to put the CDs for installation every time into the CDROM and without the need to download the package from internet every time. Above all the package dependencies are automatically resolved and installed / removed making the installation process a real breeze.
Apart from this there are host of packages like checkinstall (although available on other systems as well), localepurge, module assistant, debootstrap, pbuilder etc., which work so well in conjugation with other Debian package management tools that it is hard to describe in just one line or paragraph. Each of these tools really deserve a separate blog entry
In the past I have had real troubles specially with RPMS and local self installed packages cluttering the system, unresolved package dependencies that I felt a lot many times that I am spending too much time maintaining my Linux system than actually doing some work and had a strong desire to switch back to Windows.
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