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linux

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yeah thats right

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but debian is the “universal operating system”

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now what do you mean by that….so is debian a specific type of linux operating system kind of like windows xp is a version of the windows os

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hmmm, its not really the same… but as you know, you installed version 4, which was just officially released earlier this month.

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Whereas Windows has version “XP”, debian has versions 3 and 4, 3 was nicknamed sarge (I think), and 4 is nicknamed etch.

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gotcha

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interesting

05:15
why are there so many versions whereas windows is so limited

as far as linux goes, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of variations, usually called the different “flavors” of linux

millions of people all over the world are all working on it together, and they all have different opinions of how it should work, whereas windows is developed by a much smaller pool of developers, with much different, and much narrower, objectives. at least that’s what I think.

depends on the version, ubuntu and debian are very similar, whereas gentoo is in its own world, same with slackware. Centos, whitebox, and red hat are similar, the differences are often clear in how the software is managed, but also the objective.

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Ubuntu is trying to be user friendly, while debian is staunchly free, gentoo is for cutting edge developers, and red hat is for corporate customers

14:33
linux is an entirely different type of computing than windows, and linux is just a part of unix, which also include the bsd family: freebsd, netbsd, and openbsd.