A question about Debian for discussion

Before Ian Murdock and his wife Debbie came along and created Debian, of course based on the Linux kernel that was developed by Linus Torvald, there was dependancy hell with packages. You had to istall the source package and then try to find the other components to make it work. Through their endeavor with the help of a thousand volunteers they took the source code packages and put them together with the needed dependancy packages to make them work on your system. They also created the installer or package handler called APT which works at the command line or has graphical front ends like Synaptic which make life easier for me and you. APT knows what you need to have to make it work and installs them at the same time without you having to look for them afterwards. That's not to say that there aren't other packages you can install to add features to that main packages use that don't necessarily get installed for you iniyially but the package will basically work. In turn people like Warren took all the components that Debian produced, and graphical desktops that the KDE project put together and wrote scripts to tie everything together nicely and built an easy to use operating system for me and you to use after a 20 minute install. If it wasn't for the Debian group and their enormous repository of work we wouldn't have Mepis, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Knoppix only to name a few. My explanation is a very simplified version of what happen but l hope it is some value to your understanding.

wayne