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Appendix. Linux distributives comparing table
| Criteria | Debian | ALTLinux |
|---|---|---|
| Technical | ||
| Allows for the ready installation moving to different hardware x86/x86_64 from different manufacturer, mostly between Intel <=> AMD chipsets | + | - |
| Linux kernels updating in the general way | + | - |
| R8169 Ethernet adaptor correct working | + (LinuxKernel-3.2.65, 3.16.7) | - |
| SSH-client connection by a key does not perform all times with the authentication request | + | - |
| Allows for configuration and some selection during the package installing | + | - |
| Correct working of the commands "$ apt-get autoremove" and "$ apt-get reinstall" | + | - |
| TDE R14 is allowed in ready to use the packages and repositories | + | - |
| Supports of the mostly known hardware platforms | + | - (only x86, x86_64 and ARM from version 7) |
| Accessing to SWAP after installing from the Live | + | - |
| Disabling to format the allowed SWAP, than preventing to change the UUID for multiple Linux installing | - | - |
| Working the fglrx-legacy | + 7,Wheezy (Kernel 3.2 and XOrgServer 1.12) | - T6 (Kernel 3.0-mostly broken and XOrgServer 1.10) |
| Absence of the system connection (from EtcNet) which impossible to be removed into NetworkManager | + | - |
| Installation and compact storing only for needed and selected data of locales, too useful for embedded systems! | + | - |
| Absence of the library "libusb" breakage on x86_64 | + | - (7) |
| Normal building of the package "evince" | + | - (7) |
| Fixing for ffmpeg AVI-playing buffer size | + | - |
| Fixing for icons size into the system tray by GTK3 which mostly fixed for nm-applet | + (8, GTK 3.14.5) | - |
| TDE: normal notification in Kopete | + | - |
| TDE: building Digikam | + | - |
| TDE > KRdc: the upper panel is more correct | + | - |
| TDE > KDiff3: no crashes at the insertion | + | - |
| Live: no problem with the disk label changing | + | - |
| Political | ||
| Neither direct or indirect approval, neither in representing it as the time zone or some core developers, of occupation of the Ukrainian Crimea and aggression in Donbas by mRussia | + | - |
| It is not purely mRussian distributive which mostly and often serves directly or indirectly to the new "GreatMRussian chauvinism" to their near neighbours, especially in lights of the new mRussian aggression against Ukrainian now | + | - |
| Native localisation to Ukrainian | + (very good) | +- (only mRussian with some plays at Ukrainian, Belorussian, Kazakh and languages of other near neighbours — the slave colonies in real of the prison of the folks). |
| Main branches of the package repositories is free, available for the community and the Long Term Support in real | + | - |