
The downside of Debian’s stability is that you can end up with some ancient versions of packages in the stable version. People who really believe in the free software and free culture ethos find Debian attractive for this reason. It’s one reason that sites like Wikipedia rely on it.ĭebian is also different from Ubuntu as it is strictly a community project, without being controlled by a commercial company the way Canonical does with Ubuntu. This doesn’t mean that it won’t crash, but that it doesn’t change that much during its lifetime, which does help reliability. It’s also one of the oldest distributions still in active development, tracing its history back to 1993.ĭebian in its standard configuration is known for its stability.

Debian is the basis for the popular Ubuntu version mentioned above.
