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		lamby on Sept 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl So.. things that have been in Debian for years.

divtxt on Oct 1, 2011 [–]

NO - this is about the availability of DOCS to setup 3rd party software.

10 years ago, Debian may have had apt-get and stable but a lot of software setup docs were for building from source leading to possible compile issues and version conflicts for libraries.

Now, many setup docs are written as apt-get of binary packages for the last Ubuntu LTS.

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