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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

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.

fixxer 14y ago
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.
- petsos 14y ago
  Save the lecturing, you can do this in virtually any OS.
  - fixxer 14y ago
    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."