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How to tell the difference between debian and debian slim?


Asked by Jace Hoover on Dec 02, 2021 FAQ



You can compare the git repos used to build the images (rootfs.manifest is useful). Or you can run each image and see what they show is different:
Keeping this in consideration,
Ubuntu is not based on its community; sometimes, skilled and experienced developers are hired to work on the OS. You can get Ubuntu releases frequently but not tested as Debian, and thus, it is not a very stable solution. You can avail both free and proprietary software, making Ubuntu not as free as Debian.
In fact, WHAT is Debian? The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.
In addition,
The preferred method to check your Debian version is to use the lsb_release utility which displays LSB (Linux Standard Base) information about the Linux distribution. This method will work no matter which desktop environment or Debian version you are running. lsb_release -a.
Likewise,
When you log in to a Debian Linux system for the first time, before doing any work it is always a good idea to check what version of Debian is running on the machine. Stable - The latest officially released distribution of Debian. At the time of writing this article, the current stable distribution of Debian is version 9 (stretch).