By the time I received my RasPi, I didn't have an usb keyboard yet, so my first concern was about how to use it without the keyboard from the very first boot. It wasn't clear whether the ssh daemon would be active by default or not, and I've also got to know that for some distributions, or even among different updates of the same distribution, its default state changed over time.
I found out that in Raspbian, ssh is installed by default but it's not configured to start up automatically since the first boot.
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