• Fwd: debian image questions

    From Luna Jernberg@21:1/5 to Bill Miller on Thu Aug 3 17:00:01 2023
    XPost: linux.debian.user

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    Från: ghostbar <ghostbar@riseup.net>
    Date: tors 3 aug. 2023 kl 14:35
    Subject: Re: debian image questions
    To: <debian-project@lists.debian.org>


    On 8/2/23 21:40, Bill Miller wrote:
    I really want to try Debian but i dont live in the 90's CDs and USB
    drives times. why cant i just install Debian from a digital cloud? i
    dont understand why i need physical hardware to run digital software?

    Hi Bill,

    This is a good question for debian-user@l.d.o instead of
    debian-project@, maybe that's a hint about why you can't find what
    you're looking for.

    You can install Debian in the cloud, of course. Actually, all cloud
    providers ship Debian. Is your cloud provider missing Debian?

    Or maybe you're mistaking an operating system for an application?

    Debian is not a game nor an app, is an operating system[1]. So you need
    either virtualized (most cloud-providers) or physical hardware to run
    any operating system.

    If you want to run it like an application in your current operating
    system, you can use a virtual machine like VirtualBox[2].

    [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
    [2]: https://www.virtualbox.org/

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