Both. desktop is arch based, server is Debian.
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You slut, you!
Are you waiting for an invitation?
Oooh yeah, baby, let's debug the networking stack together!
That's all it takes to be a distro slut!?
What the heck am I then?
%brl list -v
artix
bedrock
ceres -> devuan-ceres
devuan -> devuan-ceres
devuan-ceres
devuan-ceres-new
devuan-chimaera
devuan-testing -> devuan-chimaera
devuan-unstable -> devuan-ceres
exherbo
fartix
fentoo
fexherbo
garyos
gentoo
gentoostudio
goblin
gs -> gentoostudio
hijacked -> gentoo
init -> gentoo
jentoo
kentoo
kentwo
local -> gentoostudio
marklar
oasis
pclinuxos
space
suckless
tentoo
tudio -> gentoostudio
ubuntu
void
void-kde
And that's just one of my computers.
[... it's starting to make sense, thinking about one thing I made, I called wminizer]
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Yep. "Depends on the use case" is a solid answer.
This is the way! Everything is based on Arch, Debian or Fedora anyway so you might as well stick to what is well known and supported.
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Reverse UNO
NixOS* but yes
My wife uses Debian, but I love her anyway. β€οΈ
Do you call her Debbie Anne?
Fun fact that not a lot of people seem to know: the name is a portmanteau of "Deborah" and "Ian". The names of the Creator and his then wife
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Debian in the kitchen and Arch in the bedroom
Debian in the kitchen
You only buy pre-made food?
That's where Gentoo belongs, or LFS if you don't like following recipes.
I buy ingredients, not seeds and animals.
Only buy traditional food with a best before date at least 3 years in the future.
In bedroom a new bed every other day with a lot of bed bugs.
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She's just baffled that anyone who knows those two distributions could be so dense as to whittle down the vast infinite sea of possible options to just two incredibly boring ones. She would have cried next if he hadn't done it.
Also, OpenSUSE.
well the vast majority of those are just arch and debian with extra steps, with the occasional fedora based or independent distro
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She's a Hannah Montana girl.
So... Debian then? Hannah Montana Linux has historically been a kubuntu reskin
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Linus would be out... He uses Fedora
He's also married.
Of course he is. No woman can resist a guy who uses Fedora
She went for him in late 1993:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is married to Tove Torvalds (nΓ©eΒ Monni), a six-time Finnish national karate champion, whom he met in late 1993. He was running introductory computer laboratory exercises for students and instructed the course attendees to send him an e-mail as a test, to which Tove responded with an e-mail asking for a date.
Fedora won't have been around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Linux
Fedora Linux[10] is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. It was originally developed in 2003 as a continuation of the Red Hat Linux project.
It looks like there were Linux distributions at the time, but they were very early:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution
Early distributions included:
Torvalds' "Boot-Root" images, from v0.95a onwards "Root" was maintained by Jim Winstead Jr., the aforementioned disk image pair with the kernel and the absolute minimal tools to get started (0.10: 4 November 1991)[12][13][14][15]
MCC Interim Linux (3 March 1992)[16]
TAMU Linux, based on MCC with simpler installation and X11 (14 July 1992)[17]
Softlanding Linux System (SLS) which included the X Window System and was the most comprehensive distribution for a short time (15 August 1992)[18]
H.J. Lu's "bootable rootdisks" (23 September 1992),[19][20] and "Linux Base System" (5 October 1992)[21][22]
Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X, a commercial distribution (alpha: 8 December 1992)
The two oldest, still active distribution projects started in 1993. The SLS distribution was not well maintained, so in July 1993 a new SLS-based distribution, Slackware, was released by Patrick Volkerding.[23] Also dissatisfied with SLS, Ian Murdock set to create a free distribution by founding Debian in August 1993, with first public BETA released in January 1994 and first stable version in June 1996.[24][25]
I think that there are two possible takeaways from this:
- Not clear what distro was used
if any
but if it was, it won't have been a presently existing one. It's possible that he was just rolling his own setup, not using a distro at all.
- Linus's date with Tove derived from an email exchange. What ninja chicks look for in a guy is possibly an email client, not a Linux distribution at all. It sounds like Linus was probably using Pine at the time (though someone could go dig up mail headers from old emails to check).
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I would answer debian, but I want her to say arch.
I want my girlfriend to be smarter than me ok!?
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Her: it depends on who's asking and their usecase
- Pls marry me (pls)
Debian, of course. My computer is a tool, not a hobby.
Plus, I like apt. It's nice.
Fedora.
Debian for work, arch for home
Debian in the streets, arch in the sheets.
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