What is debian?

June 27th, 2008 Posted in Linux

Debian Logo

What is Debian?

  • Debian as a Universal Operating System
    • 15,490 precompiled software with Sarge (3.1)
    • 12 officially supported architectures
      • IA-32, IA-64, AMD64, PowerPC, Alpha, SPARC,
      • ARM, m68k, MIPS (mips and mipsel), HP PA-RISC, S/390
  • GNU/Linux, GNU/Hurd, GNU/NetBSD, GNU/kFreeBSD

What is Debian?

  • Debian as a Mother Distribution
    • Base for a number of popular distributions
      • Ubuntu, Knoppix, Libranet
  • Base for internal custom distributions
    • Debian Jr., Debian-Med, Debian-Edu, Debian Desktop, Debian-Lex, Debian-NP, Debian Accessibility, Debian Enterprise, Demudi

What is Debian?

  • Debian as a Community
    • 1,682 project participants
      • 1,618 independent package maintainers
      • 64 package maintenance teams
  • Collaboration through mailing lists and IRC
    • 28,588 subscribers of debian-announce
    • 4,772 subscribers of debian-devel-announce
  • Developers all over the world (see map)
    Debian Developers
Tags: ,
This entry was posted on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 1:33 pm and is filed under Linux. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

If you found this page useful, consider linking to it.
Simply copy and paste the code below into your web site (Ctrl+C to copy)
It will look like this: What is debian?

Leave a Reply