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Gentoo Linux
Gentoo compiles everything from source, optimized for your machine, and for a few years in the early 2000s it was the coolest distribution around. It never became mainstream, and its culture is a cautionary tale about…
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Debian turns 31!
On August 16, 1993, a Purdue student named Ian Murdock announced a new Linux distribution built in the open by volunteers. Thirty-one years later Debian is the foundation of Ubuntu, Mint, Raspberry Pi OS, Kali and…
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OPINION: Do We Really Need Another Linux Distribution?
There are hundreds of Linux distributions, and someone is starting another one right now. Do we need it? Probably not. Should they do it anyway? Probably yes. What all that choice really costs, what it's given us, and…