Migrating dmd to D?

[John Colvin]

Coventryday, 9 March 2013 at 09:08:09 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 19:03 +0100, Kagamin wrote:
> […]
>> According to distrowatch Ubuntu and Mint are more popular than 
>> Debian, and Ubuntu allows proprietary software like Opera 
>> browser and Nvidia drivers, so dmd won't be a problem too. Why 
>> Debian policies should be an issue?
>
> As Jeff pointed out, Debian is the base for Ubuntu, Mint, and 
> others so
> if you get in Debian you are in Ubuntu, Mint, etc. It is 
> possible to get
> into Ubuntu, Mint, etc. separately but then you have many 
> channels
> instead of just the one.
>
> Debian also allows proprietary software such as NVIDIA drivers, 
> it is
> just that they are in the non-free repository instead of the 
> free
> repository. Non-free is not available by default in Debian but 
> it is
> there. I use it all the time for NVIDIA drivers and some other 
> stuff.

A similar thing exists in fedora and redhat country: rpmfusion.

It has free and non-free branches containing a handful of 
packages fed and rh won't include in the main repos for licence 
reasons. Many people use it for nvidia drivers