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Debian turns 30 – and important to Linux world as ever

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August 16 was an especially big day for this island of stability
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    Something a Gentoo user might care about is the distro’s compile time options. Ubuntu uses -O2 and LTO, Debian uses -O1. Debian has always been noticably slower overall for me.

    Don’t do what I did and go with Tumbleweed. It gets more updates than Arch.

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      It’s not that difficult to build your own kernel based on the official debian one: https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official

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        It doesn’t make much of a difference in the kernel, but I definitely notice it on Debian’s Firefox vs Flatpak.

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