Thank you for your kind words on encouragement,. I fully intend to stick
around this list as well as becomming more active on the debian users
forums. I choose to use virtualbox because I can spin up multiple
instances of Debian inorder to not only help the Debian development
team but also to help fellow users debug there issues and or solve
their issues.
Thanks,
Chip
On 1/13/24 15:15, David Christensen wrote:
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=all=stable=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
