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        • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          Think it’s been maintenance, but the real difference is packages aren’t ancient like they used to be, they’re mostly up to date.

          Stuff like the desktop are basically generic compared to Ubuntu’s customization, but they moved to wayland, pipewire, all that stuff which is violent radical by past debian standards.

      • lengau@midwest.social
        2·
        1 month ago

        Depends what/when you mean.

        Debian 12 was released in June and has some newer, and some older, packages than Ubuntu 24.04. For example Ubuntu has LibreOffice 24.2.2 while Debian has 7.4.5.

        Debian testing currently has a similar distribution to Ubuntu 24.10, though over the next 6 months it’ll pull ahead of that, but Ubuntu 25.04 will likely have on average newer packages than Debian testing until its beta freeze.

        Debian unstable has always had newer packages than the others.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    52·
    1 month ago

    I had this book… Threw it out of years ago because every time I moved house, it was a pain to pack and deal with lots of boxes of geeky books.

    Besides, most of it is outdated now. New users probably should learn systemd rather than startup scripts.

  • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 month ago

    I was at a used bookshop the other day and found the same Caldera Open Linux 2.2 book and cd that I used to install my first linux distro on a pc. Man that was exciting!