Debian

Debian or Project Debian is a community made up of developers and users, which maintains a GNU operating system based on free software.

The system is precompiled, packed and in deb format for multiple computer architectures and for several cores. The Debian project was initially announced in 1993 by Ian Murdock. The name Debian comes from the combination of the name of his then girlfriend Deborah and his, therefore, Deb (orah) and Ian. Debian 0.01 was released on September 15, 1993, and the first stable version was made in 1996. It was born as a bet to separate the free software from non-free software. The model of development of the project is foreign to business or commercial reasons, being carried out by the users themselves, although it has the support of several companies in the form of infrastructure. Debian does not sell its software directly, it makes it available to anyone on the Internet, although it does allow individuals or companies to distribute it commercially while their license is respected. The community of developers of the project counts with the representation of Software in the Public Interest, a non-profit organization that gives legal coverage to several free software projects, with the initial objective of giving legal coverage to the Debian project, after the end of the sponsorship of the FSF (Free Software Foundation). The first adaptation of the Debian system, being also the most developed, is Debian GNU / Linux, based on the Linux kernel, and as always using GNU tools. There are also other adaptations with different kernels: Hurd (Debian GNU / Hurd); NetBSD (Debian GNU / NetBSD) and FreeBSD (Debian GNU / kFreeBSD).