On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:21:01 +0000
dep via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> 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