Debian Is the Most Important Linux

inkscapee writes "Without Debian we are nothing. Debian is the most influential and important Linux, and is unique for being the largest, oldest, 100% non-commercial community-driven distro. '...just under 63% of all distributions now being developed come ultimately from Debian. By comparison, 50 (15%) are based on Fedora or Red Hat, 28 (9%) on Slackware, and 12 (4%) on Gentoo.'"

Oldest?

[SilverJets]

I think Slackware is just slightly older than Debian and this graph [wikipedia.org] seems to indicate that as well.

Re:Do we need this?

[larry bagina]

If you use linux math, Dell, Compaq, HP, etc all load up Windows with different crapware, so they count as a new distribution.

Re:Do we need this?

[armanox]

Slackware has Debian beat on age.

Re:Android second?

[ChunderDownunder]

Android 2.2 for i386 [googlecode.com]