Debian 6 Linux has finally been released

[ponder]

Innocent question : Are there people still using Debian?

I mean the answer is of course yes - a couple of diehards or people locked into some old application or two.

But I mean are there significant numbers of people still choosing it on its own merits?

Yes. Look at it from another perspective. Everyone using a Debian based distro is essentially using Debian in some modified form.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#Debian-based

 

[ponder]

Add this to make it pretty. Well you can go look for your own version of pretty ...

Nice desktop spheres, hubba hubba

 

[fragtion]

Yes. Look at it from another perspective. Everyone using a Debian based distro is essentially using Debian in some modified form.

Yes! Indeed this was my main mental comforting when making the decision to switch to Ubuntu! And the two, from a console point of view, are practically identical apart from ubuntu's own _improvements_