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• A survey of several French service companies specialized in free software has shown that<br />

all of them provide technical assistance for Debian; it is also, for many of them, their<br />

chosen distribution, internally. This diversity of potential providers is a major asset for<br />

Falcot Corp's independence.<br />

• Finally, Debian is available on a multitude of architectures, including Sparc; it will, thus,<br />

be possible to install it on Falcot Corp's several Sun servers.<br />

Once Debian has been chosen, the matter of which version to use must be decided. Let's see why<br />

the administrators have picked Debian Squeeze.<br />

2.5. Why Debian Squeeze?<br />

At the time of this writing, Debian Squeeze was still the “Testing” distribution, but now, while<br />

you are reading, it will be the new “Stable” version of Debian. This is also the reason for which<br />

we speak of “Debian Squeeze”, rather than “Debian 6.0”, since the version number is not used<br />

prior to its effective release.<br />

You may note a few minor differences between what is written here and what you observe in<br />

practice, even though we have limited these discrepancies as much as possible.<br />

PARTICIPATE<br />

Do not hesitate to indicate any error herein to us by e-mail; You can reach<br />

Raphaël at hertzog@debian.org, and Roland at lolando@debian.org.<br />

The choice of Debian Squeeze is well justified based on the fact that any administrator concerned<br />

about the quality of their servers will naturally gravitate towards the stable version of Debian.<br />

Furthermore, this distribution introduces numerous interesting changes: support for the latest<br />

virtualization technologies (KVM), simplified PAM configuration, an improved installer supporting<br />

BTRFS, all bringing improvements that directly affect administrators.<br />

36 The Debian Administrator's Handbook

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