On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:21:01 +0000 dep via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks but nah, the argument for Debian is and always has been that Debian > *is* Linux. I've seen lots of distros come and go, always a flavor of he > month. Debian has been around for 30 years. As a Gentoo user with no horse in this race, I've been watching from the sidelines until now, but this made me wince. Slackware is the oldest continuously extant distro (a couple of months older than Debian) and even the younger distro family roots—RHEL, Arch, and Gentoo—are more than 20 years old now. If we can say of any distro that it *is* Linux, I'd vote for Linux From Scratch, since it has the fewest distro-specific additions. Debian is the root distro of what's currently the largest and most popular family of distros (excluding ChromeOS and Android), and while I admit that that's an achievement in its own right, that doesn't mean that it *is* Linux. E. Liddell ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
