On 1/13/24 08:38, Chip Snuth wrote:
Hello,
Hello. :-)
I'm currently using RHEL however, I am still virtualization to play with
Debian instead of houseing my RHEL installation . Would the Debian
community view me as a trator ofr chill for closed source and
proprietary software? personally prefer the held back kernel and
software in RHEL provides for instance the kernel is listed below.
4.18.0-513.11.1.el8_9.x86_64 #1 SMP
Do not worry about being harassed on this list -- most everyone is
polite, and impolite behavior is dealt with promptly.
Debian offers several choices for virtualization:
https://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization
Debian 12 "Bulleye" is the current "stable" release of Debian:
https://www.debian.org/releases/
Debian also supports the past two previous releases of "stable":
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
Debian offers lots of software via a package management system. Binary
packages are the fast and easy way to install software. Source packages
are useful when you want to customize compiled-in features, do
debugging/ development/ test, etc.:
https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=virtual&searchon=all&suite=stable§ion=all
As upstream software projects release new versions, these go into
"unstable", then "testing", and eventually "stable". Important software
updates are sometimes expedited through this process and made available
as "backport" packages:
https://backports.debian.org/
Some vendors provide servers and packages that integrate into the Debian
package management system. This provides the current version of the
software using the standard Debian package management tools. For
example, I use Oracle VirtualBox:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
All that said, the only way to find out if an OS is going to meet your
needs is to get a computer, install the OS, and try to do something
useful with it. This mailing list is one of many available help
resources if you choose Debian.
David
