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Old 02-24-2011, 07:31 PM   #1
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LQ Iso Debian page misleading


I was poking around at the LQ ISO site (i.e. the "Download Linux" in the Main Menu) and noticed something misleading about the Debian page for Squeeze. The page leads me to believe that Debian only runs on x86 or amd64 machines, when Debian runs on tons more than that. I think it's written that way because those are the only ports mirrored at LQ ISO.

Perhaps the list should show the other official ports and direct people to the Debian website for download. Just my
 
Old 02-24-2011, 08:34 PM   #2
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Frankly, that whole page is horrendous. I don't know who wrote that "description" of Debian, but that really needs to be thrown out. At best it is a poor explanation of the general concept of a GNU/Linux distribution, and certainly does little to describe Debian itself (much less the current version).
 
Old 02-25-2011, 08:01 AM   #3
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Moved: This thread is more suitable in LQ Suggestions and Feedback and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.
 
Old 02-25-2011, 09:11 AM   #4
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I was poking around at the LQ ISO site (i.e. the "Download Linux" in the Main Menu) and noticed something misleading about the Debian page for Squeeze. The page leads me to believe that Debian only runs on x86 or amd64 machines, when Debian runs on tons more than that. I think it's written that way because those are the only ports mirrored at LQ ISO.

Perhaps the list should show the other official ports and direct people to the Debian website for download. Just my
You can use the "Suggest Additions" link to help add other architectures to the site (for Debian or any other distribution).

--jeremy
 
Old 02-25-2011, 09:12 AM   #5
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Frankly, that whole page is horrendous. I don't know who wrote that "description" of Debian, but that really needs to be thrown out. At best it is a poor explanation of the general concept of a GNU/Linux distribution, and certainly does little to describe Debian itself (much less the current version).
The distribution descriptions are not release specific. We get them either from the official website, or if they don't offer a succinct description we get it from Distrowatch.

--jeremy
 
Old 02-25-2011, 01:09 PM   #6
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You can use the "Suggest Additions" link to help add other architectures to the site (for Debian or any other distribution).

--jeremy
Are the iso files hosted by LQ or is this just pointing to one of the already established Debian mirrors?
 
Old 02-25-2011, 04:16 PM   #7
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The page points to external mirrors, none of the isos are hosted at LQ.
 
Old 02-25-2011, 04:58 PM   #8
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I agree that the LQ page for Debian isn't that great, but when I went to the official page I saw that a lot of the awkward stuff came straight from them. I cobbled this together from the 'About Debian' page, a few FAQs and Release Notes. Also stripped out some stuff to make it a bit shorter and sweeter.
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The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short.

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel, a completely free piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. Since Debian 6.0 (aka “Squeeze”) users can also choose to install a BSD kernel, and work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, primarily for the Hurd.

Debian comes with over 20,000 packages (precompiled software that is bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine) - all of it free. Debian is so committed to free software that we thought it would be useful if that commitment was formalized in a written document. Thus, our Social Contract was born.

Although Debian believes in free software, there are cases where people want or need to put non-free software on their machine. Whenever possible Debian will support this.

Debian will run on almost all personal computers, including most older models. Each new release of Debian generally supports a larger number of computer architectures.

Debian 6.0 currently supports the following architectures:
  • 32-bit PC (i386)
  • 64-bit PC (amd64)
  • EABI ARM
  • PowerPC
  • SPARC
  • Intel Itanium IA-64
  • MIPS (little endian)
  • kFreeBSD 64-bit PC (amd64)
  • kFreeBSD 32-bit PC (i386)
  • IBM S/390
  • MIPS (big endian)
 
Old 02-25-2011, 06:06 PM   #9
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That might still be a little longer than necessary, but is about 100 times better than the awkward near-gibberish that is currently in place.

I believe we have a dedicated LQ ISO Maintainer (or maybe that is just the HCL?), perhaps he/she can chime in on this?
 
Old 02-28-2011, 10:04 PM   #10
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Edited per comments above.

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The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel, a completely free piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. Since Debian 6.0 (aka “Squeeze”) users can also choose to install a BSD kernel, and work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, primarily for the Hurd.

Debian comes with over 20,000 packages ready for easy installation on your machine - all of it free. Debian will run on almost all personal computers, including most older models.
Supported architectures:32-bit PC (i386), 64-bit PC (amd64), EABI ARM, PowerPC, SPARC , Intel Itanium IA-64, MIPS (little endian), kFreeBSD 64-bit PC (amd64), kFreeBSD 32-bit PC (i386), IBM S/390, MIPS (big endian)
 
  


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