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Discussion on: Hi, I’m Christine and I started contributing to Debian when I was 15. Now I’m the CTO of Nylas, ask me anything!

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Christine Spang

Debian and Ubuntu, Debian because I've been using it for coming up on 15 years and have a key in the keyring, meaning I can even upload new packages and make changes (I'm an official developer), and also because I've made a bunch of friends in the community and being involved there changed my life and resulted in me going to MIT and becoming a software engineer. I still run Debian on my laptop today, despite several bets from coworkers that I am going to get tired of it and switch to a Mac.

Ubuntu is the runner up because it's based on Debian and very popular. :) Debian is considered so technically rock solid that there are literally hundreds of other Linux distros that are based on it, of which Ubuntu is one: wiki.debian.org/Derivatives