Re: Testing bullseye

[Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, 3:03 PM Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, 2:35 AM Gunnar Gervin <dofeelok@gmail.com> wrote:

......Learning Linux Debian is a nice hobby(feels more like a lifestyle)

Linux always felt larger than merely another OS, whether Debian or other.

But I should add that the Debian ecosystem always felt bigger than the other distributions' ecosystems. Thinking of SuSE and RH/CentOS/fedora. It just seems to vacuum it all up and release it. And I now even encounter businesses that are uncomfortable in the RH ecosystem because they see single-vendor dependency there despite open source. I think AWS and Google cloud deserve some credit for that, having presented Debian and Debian-based releases (AMI in AWS) as almost canonical. And they have their own wariness of RH as competitors.

IMO that's because of the free-software movement's stated social goals and because of the broad cooperation needed to make the software. Yet the free-software movement is unknown to the humans who rely on Linux servers as only infrastructure, and mostly ignored as a social movement even by those who use Linux consciously or with economic intent.

geg