About:
Debian is an operating system for your computer that consists only of Free Software. It uses the Linux kernel, and a large part of the basic tools that fill out the operating system come from GNU, which are also free. It comes with thousands of packages.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Author:
Debian Developers <debian [dash] devel [at] lists [dot] debian [dot] org> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.91/10.00 (196 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.debian.org/
Tar/BZ2:
http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/
Changelog:
http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/releasenotes
Debian package:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
Bittorrent:
http://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/
Purchase:
http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/
Bug tracker:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/
Mailing list archive:
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
Mirror site:
http://www.debian.org/mirrors/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		3 - Alpha, 4 - Beta, 5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop, Other Audience, Quality Engineers, System Administrators
[License]		DFSG approved, OSI Approved
[Operating System]		POSIX :: GNU/Hurd, POSIX :: Linux
[Topic]		System :: Operating System, System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

Dependencies: [change]
GNU C library (recommended)
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (optional)
The GNU Hurd (optional)
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 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	4.0r6	24-Dec-2008	OSI Approved
Debian-Installer Testing the Debian Installer.	Lenny RC1	21-Dec-2008	DFSG approved

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
4.0r6	Major security fixes	24-Dec-2008 14:25
4.0	N/A	09-Apr-2007 00:31
3.1r5	Major security fixes	28-Feb-2007 16:15
3.1r4	Major security fixes	22-Dec-2006 11:30
3.1r3	Major security fixes	03-Sep-2006 20:33
3.1	Major feature enhancements	06-Jun-2005 21:02
3.0r6	Major security fixes	02-Jun-2005 20:00
3.0r5	Major security fixes	17-Apr-2005 20:20
3.0r4	Major security fixes	05-Jan-2005 06:44
3.0r3	Major security fixes	26-Oct-2004 17:44

 Articles referencing this project

The Debian System by Nico Golde , in Book Reviews Sat, Sep 10th 2005 00:00 Zero Install and the Web of Software by Thomas Leonard , in Editorials Sat, Dec 13th 2003 00:00 Lessons in Packaging Linux Applications by Billy Biggs and Doug Bell , in Editorials Sat, Sep 20th 2003 00:00 A Plea for Clear Theme Copyrights by Devin Carraway , in Themes Sat, Nov 2nd 2002 00:00 The Linux Cookbook by jeff covey , in Book Reviews Sat, Mar 23rd 2002 00:00

How to Fix the Unix Configuration Nightmare by Matthew Arnison , in Editorials Sat, Feb 16th 2002 00:00 An RPM port of APT by Alfredo K. Kojima , in Editorials Sat, Dec 2nd 2000 23:59 Is it time to change RPM? by Claudio Matsuoka , in Editorials Sat, Sep 16th 2000 23:59 Call for a Cease Fire in the KDE/GNOME War by Gaël Duval , in Editorials Sat, Sep 2nd 2000 23:59 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] 4000?
by Wilmer van der Gaast - Jul 20th 2002 12:45:54

> It comes with almost 4000 packages.

Wrong! Almost 10000 would be a better guess these days...

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[»] Re: 4000?
by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) - Nov 14th 2003 00:31:21


>Almost 10000 would be a better guess these days...
11948 binary packages (i386); 7162 source packages currently. ("grep|wc -l"ed from relevant files in my apt's /var/lib/apt/lists/).

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