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Old 17th February 2009
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Originally Posted by ephemera View Post
Is anyone still excited about Debian?
Very much so! That's what we run on 95% of our servers, and 100% of our Linux desktops. And we have a lot of Linux desktops in this school district. All of our elementary school labs (~50) are running diskless Debian, 6 of our secondary schools are diskless Debian everywhere (including admin stations), the other 3 secondary are slated for switching this summer, and the rest of the elem stations are in the process of being switched over. So we follow Debian quite closely.

We'll be considering migrating our diskless servers over to Lenny this summer.

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I think I will give Debian 5 a try sometime this weekend.
If anyone has already tried it please share your experience.
Linux is Linux is Linux. There's very little to differentiate between the distros, especially on the desktop side of things.

What would be nice, is if a distro came out that clearly separated the "base" OS from the "applications", in such a way that you can install new apps without installing a new OS release (and no, "backports" repos don't cut it). There's no reason I should have to upgrade my kernel and core software in order to run KDE 4.2.
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