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Debian is a distribution for bureaucrats. For installations that are just being maintained. If you are anything close to hacker do yourself a favor and use something else.

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Hackers also appreciate having a stable, even conservative, foundation on which to build, especially when it's time to put a service in production, scale it to multiple servers, and keep up-to-date with security patches.

There is nothing to stop Debian users from using Rails, Django, Node.js, or any of the other alternatives to LAMP. SOme of them are even packaged in Debian.

I'm running LMDE and I've got all the goodies by default. If there is something else that the package manager doesn't cover, I do this amazing thing... I download the source and make! Crazy, I know.

Save the lecturing, you can do this in virtually any OS.

To be accurate, it was sarcasm, not lecturing.

This is lecturing: "If you are anything close to hacker do yourself a favor and use something else."

Edessa?

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