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 Map