{"id":1262,"date":"2005-09-29T23:37:34","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T06:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/29\/my-first-day-with-debian\/"},"modified":"2005-09-29T23:37:34","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T06:37:34","slug":"my-first-day-with-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/29\/my-first-day-with-debian\/","title":{"rendered":"my first day with debian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had to move a site that I wrote from LA to Paris. From redhat to debian. Overall not a bad experience. Debian is different but seems neither worse nor better than Redhat or Suse from what I can tell. apt-get is your friend. Why they felt that apache is a better name than httpd beats me.<\/p>\n<p>Complex things go well and simple ones have surprises:<br \/>\nChanging the timezone back from Paris to LA I first ran tzselect.<br \/>\nThat gave me the correct value. 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