Debian is the basis for many other distributions, most notably Ubuntu.
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31 Facts About Debian
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Since its founding, Debian has been developed openly and distributed freely according to the principles of the GNU Project.
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Debian was first announced on August 16, 1993, by Ian Murdock, who initially called the system "the Debian Linux Release".
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The word "Debian" was formed as a portmanteau of the first name of his then-girlfriend Debra Lynn and his own first name.
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Debian led the conversion of the project from a out to ELF.
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Debian created the BusyBox program to make it possible to run a Debian installer on a single floppy disk, and wrote a new installer.
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The efforts of Skolelinux, Debian-Med and Debian-Accessibility raised the number of packages that were educational, had a medical affiliation, and ones made for people with disabilities.
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Debian is still in development and new packages are uploaded to unstable every day.
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Debian used to be released as a very large set of CDs for each architecture, but with the release of Debian 9 in 2017, these have been dropped.
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Debian has access to online repositories that contain over 51, 000 packages.
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Debian officially contains only free software, but non-free software can be downloaded and installed from the Debian repositories.
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Debian includes popular free programs such as LibreOffice, Firefox web browser, Evolution mail, K3b disc burner, VLC media player, GIMP image editor, and Evince document viewer.
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Debian is a popular choice for servers, for example as the operating system component of a LAMP stack.
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Several parts of Debian are translated into languages other than American English, including package descriptions, configuration messages, documentation and the website.
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Multimedia support has been problematic in Debian regarding codecs threatened by possible patent infringements, lacking source code, or under too restrictive licenses.
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Debian offers DVD and CD images for installation that can be downloaded using BitTorrent or jigdo.
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The internal dissent in the Debian project regarding the non-free section has persisted, but the last time it came to a vote in 2004, the majority decided to keep it.
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Debian is one of the most popular Linux distributions, and many other distributions have been created from the Debian codebase.
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The Debian project provides its derivatives with guidelines for best practices and encourages derivatives to merge their work back into Debian.
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One theory about the origin of the Debian logo is that Buzz Lightyear, the chosen character for the first named Debian release, has a swirl in his chin.
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Debian's recommended system requirements depend on the level of installation, which corresponds to increased numbers of installed components:.
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BeagleBoard, a low-power open-source hardware single-board computer has switched to Debian Linux preloaded on its Beaglebone Black board's flash.
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The Debian project is a volunteer organization with three foundational documents:.
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Debian is supported by donations made to organizations authorized by the leader.
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Debian Project has an influx of applicants wishing to become developers.
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Debian project offers documentation and tools to harden a Debian installation both manually and automatically.
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Debian provides an optional hardening wrapper, and does not harden all of its software by default using gcc features such as PIE and buffer overflow protection, unlike operating systems such as OpenBSD, but tries to build as many packages as possible with hardening flags.
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