Post AxINk6JVajJ9FceDWC by jzb@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AxINk6JVajJ9FceDWC by jzb@mastodon.social
       2025-08-18T13:04:54Z
       
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       @jorge @kyle Makes sense -- I was just hoping that *somewhere* the project actually had a document of some sort that articulated what they thought it meant, so you could measure it against that to see "is Debian successful?"(Like, I would say "usability" is needed for "universal" but I'm not sure that is a target.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AxINk7wBYPq8HrkcRU by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
       2025-08-18T13:27:29Z
       
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       @jzb @jorge My guess is along the same lines as Jorge's, that it's based on multi-arch and the large number of packages that supports all kinds of use cases. But that's just a guess.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxIO5F1QPQoeLBGmqO by neal@social.gompa.me
       2025-08-18T13:31:18Z
       
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       @kyle @jzb @jorge I vaguely recall that it became that tagline around the same time "of course it runs NetBSD" happened. In many respects, Debian was considered the Linux equivalent of NetBSD in terms of portability.