I run debian right now and it works great. $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.3 (jessie) Release: 8.3 Codename: jessie
I prefer debian over ubuntu: 1. Simpler footprint so it feels more customizable out of the box. (I know that any linux distro is infinitely customizable, but I like a simple install out of the box. I feel like ubuntu was ramming more and more things down my throat). 2. I strongly believe different platforms, although are more work, also expose more bugs. 3. I started on debian and it's what I'm used to. 4. It makes me feel better. 5. In the past, working on a different distro forced me to be more aware of the details of the build process which ultimately makes me a more valuable member of the team. Having the attitude that things will just work for us, in my opinion, is a bad one for a developer. I'd rather understand things. (#4 is my primary reason). I'll be happy to help out with debian support if you need it. So far, I have zero problems, and it would be nice to not see a scary message telling me to change distros if my distro actually works great. Frederick ________________________________________ From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org <yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org> on behalf of Nick Leverton <n...@leverton.org> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 5:43 AM To: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [yocto] Dropping Debian 7 as supported? On Thursday 11 Feb 2016 14:32:50 Burton, Ross wrote: > On 11 February 2016 at 14:21, Nick Leverton <n...@leverton.org> wrote: > > Possibly a little early - Debian 7 will be going onto LTS security support > > for > > two years, starting some time this month. Quoting from > > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS > > Ah yes, I'd forgotten about the LTS project and was looking at the security > team. > > This does make it less clear, but it's still an old release and we can't > support/test on everything. I appreciate that, and I suspect the LTS efforts are of most interest to those running production servers. I would think anyone developing on Debian is likely to be running stable at least. Although I've worked at many development companies running elderly LTS versions of Ubuntu, Fedora/Centos, etc, I admit I've yet to meet one that ran Debian at all. Nevertheless if I can be of any help in supporting and testing on versions of Debian, I'm happy to do so. Nick -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto