Debian & APT - Why I love it
I don’t want to say its the best, but I’ve been using Debian, Ubuntu and other APT based Linuxes for years now. Ubuntu on desktop PC’s and Debian on Servers (only because I have a few servers already on Debian and keeping all identical is worth doing). I don’t run GUI’s on my servers.
I pretty much use Debian in favour of other linuxes because it is free, and updates are also free. Debian stable is much like Redhat Enterprise, its stable, and only upgraded when necessary… and I also love the fact there is the “free” and “non free” package library - so if you build a PC using all “free” packages you know there will be zero licensing concerns. There are disadvantages however, which I’m sure avid readers will be happy to comment on…
Why do I personally use Debian on my home servers - the main answer is APT. Its amazingly handy to upgrade packages for security bugs & the entire OS can also be updated in this way if a newer version is up.
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