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Debian is a free and open-source operating system based off of the Linux kernel and the GNU Project. The latest stable release is 5.0, nicknamed "Lenny" Debian comes with over 18,730 precompiled packages, all free. Debian can be used in may ways. It can be either an operating system or a server, and the current release can run on eleven different architectures and has over 26,000 packages avaliable for install. Debian can be installed from one CD, and the packages can then be downloaded as the user requires them, or a user can download a full install CD set that includes all of the packages. The current release has over 20 CDs of packages that can be used on the i386 architecture.
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Release date August, 1993
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Debian was first announced by Ian Murdock in August of 1993. It was the second major attempt at a linux and software package release. The first, created by the Softlanding Linux system, failed to due to poor maintence and a vast amount of bugs. The name Debian is a combination of Ian Murdocks name, and his then girlfriend, later wife and ex-wife, Debra.
Releases
| Version |
Code name |
Release date |
Archs |
Packages |
Support |
Notes |
| 1.1 |
buzz |
17 June 1996 |
1 |
474 |
1996 |
dpkg, ELF transition, Linux 2.0 |
| 1.2 |
rex |
12 December 1996 |
1 |
848 |
1996 |
- |
| 1.3 |
bo |
5 June 1997 |
1 |
974 |
1997 |
- |
| 2.0 |
hamm |
24 July 1998 |
2 |
~ 1,500 |
1998 |
glibc transition, new architecture: m68k |
| 2.1 |
slink |
9 March 1999 |
4 |
~ 2,250 |
2000-12 |
APT, new architectures: alpha, sparc |
| 2.2 |
potato |
15 August 2000 |
6 |
~ 3,900 |
2003-04 |
New architectures: arm, powerpc |
| 3.0 |
woody |
19 July 2002 |
11 |
~ 8,500 |
2006-08 |
New architectures: hppa, ia64, mips, mipsel, s390 |
| 3.1 |
sarge |
6 June 2005 |
11 |
~ 15,400 |
2008-04 |
Modular installer, semi-official amd64 support |
| 4.0 |
etch |
8 April 2007 |
11 |
~ 18,000 |
2010-02 |
Graphical installer, udev transition, modular X.Org transition, new architecture: amd64, dropped architecture: m68k. Latest update 4.0r7 was released 2009-02-10 |
| 5.0 |
lenny |
14 February 2009 |
12 |
~23,000 |
TBA |
32-bit SPARC architecture dropped. New architecture/binary ABI: armel. Almost complete UTF-8 support. Full Eee PC support. First Debian Live CD. |
| 6.0 |
squeeze |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
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Cons
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Pros
- Rock solid, even unstable/sid
- Linux OS that has spawned more successful offspring than any other Linux OS
- Apt/Dpkg
are solid package management options
- Fantastic appserver platform
- PHP, OpenJDK, GCC, LLVM and more get solid testing support/SQA support
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