Debian operating system

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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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I’m curious to know how you all handle the limited package selection in the default Debian repositories. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by shapis@lemmy.ml to c/debian@lemmy.ml

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I love the idea of trying Debian but every time I try to ditch Arch for it I end up just giving up after not being able to find all the packages I need in the repos.

How do you guys deal with that? I’m not even talking about them being out of date. I’m talking about them missing altogether.

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[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Add repos as needed (Docker, Hashicorp, helm, kubernetes, etc.), build from source for everything else.

[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn’t adding repos considered creating a FrankenDebian?

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Not in my books, but to each their own.