Debian - The Universal Operating System is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution. It is probably the biggest operating system in terms of the number of packages, contributors and the number of distributions derived from it.

The Debian project was started in August 1993 by Ian Murdock, as a new distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU. Debian was meant to be carefully and conscientiously put together and to be maintained and supported with similar care. It started as a small, tightly knit group of Free Software hackers, and gradually grew to become a large, well-organized community of developers and users.

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Status	Active
Home Page	https://www.debian.org
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Base distributions	Independent
Desktop Envrionments	GNOME Desktop KDE Plasma Xfce
Distributions based on Debian	Amarok Linux antiX deepin Devuan GNU+Linux Elive Linux Endless OS Kali Linux Kodachi Linux Linux Mint MakuluLinux MX Linux Neptune Netrunner Pardus Parsix GNU/Linux Q4OS Raspbian Shark Linux Siduction Slax Linux SolydXK Sparky Linux Tails Ubuntu Voyager Live
Releases	Debian 11 Bullseye Debian 10 Buster Debian 9.6 Stretch Debian 9.3 Stretch Debian 8.10 Jessy Debian 9.1 Stretch Debian 8.9 Jessy Debian 9 Stretch
Screenshots	Debian 10 Buster