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Of course it does. Open source projects have a decent chance of being included in your distribution's default repositories. Popular packages will even usually b
by spindritf 12y ago
Of course it does. Open source projects have a decent chance of being included in your distribution's default repositories. Popular packages will even usually be kept up to date. All that for free, with no effort on your part.
- fedesilva 12y agoMy experience tends to be that distro packaged software is not always what one ends up using in production. Except for some base packages when you start doing more sophisticated deployments. Distros may backport bug fixes and specifically security fixes but they tend to be several versions behind.