Debian - The Universal Operating System is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution. It is probably the biggest operating system in terms of number of packages, contributors and 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
Page Hit Rank (rank/views)	41(2 hits per month)
Base distributions	Independent
Website Companes Who Use Debian	Smoke Free FW Equileads FellsPoint Funfest
Desktop Envrionments	GNOME Desktop KDE Plasma Xfce
Distributions based on Debian	deepin Devuan GNU+Linux Elive Linux Kali Linux Kodachi Linux Linux Mint MX Linux Neptune Netrunner Parsix GNU/Linux Q4OS Shark Linux Slax Linux SolydXK Sparky Linux Tails Ubuntu
Releases	Debian 9.3 Stretch Debian 8.10 Jessy Debian 9.1 Stretch Debian 8.9 Jessy Debian 9 Stretch
Buy Debian	OSDisc