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Whether you want to run a simple desktop or host your own servers, check out these Debian spin-offs first.

These operating systems are so small they download faster than some apps update.

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Thanks to the GNU General Public License, the complete source codes of the Linux kernel and Linux distributions are open-source and completely transparent. This means you can customize the user ...