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Features of Debian

Having used Debian for going on 11 years, I can sure testify that while they claim to focus on security and stability, they also adhere to obsolete and insecure packages, come hell or high water.

There are a number of packages in their distribution that simply don't work or contain bugs that render them useless. However, Debian is very reliable and secure if you:

Don't install packages from their distribution.
Install software from source code and configure using your own preferences where you take responsibility for your own security.

Many software projects will not provide support for Debian users on their forums whom installed from a package because the versions used by Debian have long since been obsoleted (often 2-5 years old) and no longer supported.

Once Debian gains a stronger volunteer following, the progress in development may pick back up again to where it was back in the 90's, but there has been an attrition to other Debian-like distributions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.234.0.138 (talk) 21:33, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Feature list

What about adding a feature list of the advantages of Debian over others? For example preseeded installations.

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Derivatives

Derivatives section is a subset and should link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#Debian-based 93.103.93.103 (talk) 23:46, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]