Infobox OS logo File Debian OpenLogo.svg Debian logo 50px screenshot File DebianSqueeze.png 300px Screenshot of Debian 6.0 Squeeze caption Debian GNU Linux 6.0 Squeeze with GNOME developer Debian Project ... News 2011 20110113 title Debian Installer 6.0 Release Candidate 1 published accessdate 2011 01 13 publisher Debian date 2011 01 13 ref updatemodel Advanced Packaging Tool APT several front ends ... legal licenses title License information publisher Debian accessdate 2009 02 28 ref website http www.debian.org debian.org Debian IPAc en icon d b i n is a computer operating system composed ... Does Free Mean? or What do you mean by Free Software? publisher The Debian Project work Debian official website accessdate 2009 12 01 ref The primary form, Debian GNU Linux , which uses the Linux kernel and GNU OS tools, ref cite web url http debian.org index.en.html title Debian.org What is Debian? publisher The Debian Project work Debian official website accessdate 2009 12 01 ref is a popular and influential ... for installation and use. Debian is known for relatively strict adherence to the Unix philosophy Unix and free software philosophies ref http www.debian.org social contract Debian Social Contract on Debian ... name debfaq def cite web url http www.debian.org doc manuals debian faq ch basic defs.en.html s whatisdebian title The Debian GNU Linux FAQ Definitions and overview publisher Debian accessdate 2008 05 12 ref Debian can be used as a desktop computer desktop as well as server computing server operating .... Organization The Debian Project is governed by the Debian Constitution and the Social Contract which ... devel constitution title The Debian Constitution publisher Debian accessdate 2008 05 18 ref ref name socialcontract cite web url http www.debian.org social contract title Debian Social Contract publisher Debian accessdate 2008 11 21 ref Debian is developed by over three thousand volunteers ref name free kernel cite web url http www.debian.org News 2010 20101215 title Debian 6.0 Squeeze ... more details
Orphan date March 2010 In the Debian jargon, unstable is the development distribution of Debian . It is codenamed sid ref Some refer to sid as an acronym for Still In Development , but this is an unofficial backronym that is not often used. ref after the boy next door who broke toys in Toy Story . As unstable never becomes testing , this codename is permanent, contrary to the codenames of stable Debian stable and testing Debian testing , which have volatile codenames for instance, stable is As of 2011 alt currently known as Debian Releases Squeeze , but was Etch Debian Lenny before Debian 6.0 was released . unstable has some newer packages, but suffers from an unusually high number of serious Software bug bugs , as many packages are new. In development periods, the number of bugs considered Release Critical by the Debian project in unstable is typically between 2 and 3 times as many as the number in testing . unstable is targeted at Debian developers for building packages to be uploaded to unstable , and other Debian users that know Debian well in general, master Debian package management, are good for Debugging reporting bugs , want to help the Debian project, and have some machines on which they don t depend. Footnotes Portal Free software reflist External links http www.debian.org releases unstable Debian s definition of unstable Category Debian linux stub nl Unstable Debian zh DebianDebian sid ... more details
Infobox Software logo screenshot File Debian Installer graphical etch.png 270px caption collapsible author developer Debian Project released latest release version 5.0.1 Lenny latest release date release date and age 2009 04 11 latest preview version latest preview date frequently updated programming language operating system Debian , loading from Microsoft Windows is supported via win32 loader Debian win32 loader platform size language status genre operating system installer license GNU General Public License GPL free software website http debian.org devel debian installer debian.org devel debian installer Debian Installer is the installation program for Debian . It was originally written for the Debian 3.1 release codename sarge , although the first http www.debian.org devel debian installer News 2004 20040621 release version of a Linux distribution it was used with was Skolelinux Venus 1.0 . It is also one of two official installers available for Ubuntu operating system Ubuntu the other being called Ubiquity software Ubiquity itself based on parts of debian installer which was introduced in Ubuntu 6.06 codename Dapper Drake . It makes use of cdebconf a reimplementation of Debconf software package debconf in C programming language C to perform configuration at install time. Originally, it only supported text mode and ncurses . A graphical front end using GTK DirectFB was first introduced in Debian 4.0 codename etch . Since Debian 6.0 codename Squeeze , it uses Xorg instead of DirectFB. See also win32 loader Debian win32 loader External links http www.debian.org devel debian installer Project home page linux stub Install software stub Debian Category Debian Category Linux installation software ar de Debian Installer es Debian Installer it Debian Installer ja Debian pl Debian Installer ru Debian Installer ... more details
Mergeto Debian date November 2009 Image DebianLive.png right 300px thumb Debian Live startup screen. A Debian Live system is an instance of the Debian operating system which boots from removable media , without requiring Installation computer programs installation or previous configuration . Supported removable media include CD s, DVD s, and USB flash drive s LiveUSB . The user is usually required to choose the boot media i.e. CD , DVD or USB flash drive , and in most cases the hardware is automatically detected. If there is a DHCP server on the network, it will allow automatic configuration of the Computer network networking parameters. Debian Live allows a very thorough user orientated personalization of your system, including customising installed packages , the type of graphical user interface , the desktop Computer wallpaper wallpaper , the computer s idling screensaver as well as the available languages . The user may additionally add their own compatible Computer Program programs . See also Debian Comparison of Linux distributions Live media Comparison of Linux Live distributions External links http live.debian.net Official website Debian Category Debian Category Debian based distributions Category Operating system distributions bootable from read only media Category Live USB fr Debian Live ja Debian Live ... more details
The Debian Med project is a Debian Pure Blend created to provide a co ordinated operating system and collection of available free software packages that are well suited for the requirements for medical practice s and medical research research . Packages Debian Med includes packages of Free Software in the categories http debian med.alioth.debian.org tasks practice Medical practice and Patient management http debian med.alioth.debian.org tasks bio Molecular Biology and Medical Genetics http debian med.alioth.debian.org tasks imaging Medical imaging http debian med.alioth.debian.org tasks data Drug databases http debian med.alioth.debian.org tasks psychology Psychology and several others Availability Debian Med packages have been included in Ubuntu and derivative operating system distribution repositories. ref cite web title debian med 1.3ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu url https launchpad.net ubuntu source debian med 1.3ubuntu1 publisher Ubuntu ref See also Electronic health record Health informatics References reflist External links http www.debian.org devel debian med Debian Med Homepage of the Project http people.debian.org tille debian med talks Debian Med talks http wiki.debian.org DebianMed Wiki page with further information for users and developers. Related projects Ubuntu Med a Kubuntu operating system customization with an Electronic health record EHR and additional software packages incorporated into it http www.euspirit.org Project EU Spirit European portal for open source based software in medicine http www.openmed.org Open Med Support for free medical software German Category Debian based distributions Category Medical informatics Category Bioinformatics software Category Bioinformatics Category Linux Category Computational science cs Debian Med ... more details
Alioth is a FusionForge system run by the Debian project for development of free software and free documentation, especially software or documentation to do with Debian. Most of the projects hosted by Alioth are packaging existing software in the deb file format Debian format . However there are some notable non Debian projects hosted, like Scanner Access Now Easy SANE project. ref cite web title Alioth SANE Scanner Access Now Easy Project Info publisher Alioth url http alioth.debian.org projects sane accessdate 2007 09 03 ref History Alioth was announced in March 2003 ref http lists.debian.org debian devel announce 2003 03 msg00024.html Introducing Alioth SourceForge for Debian . 29 March 2003. ref . Originally Alioth was to be hosted on the SourceForge Enterprise Edition SourceForge code base the Free Software version of GForge was chosen later as it avoided the need to duplicate effort spent on rebranding SourceForge. ref http lists.debian.org debian devel announce 2003 04 msg00006.html Update on alioth . 12 April 2003. ref Since 2009 Alioth runs a GForge descendant called FusionForge . Alioth administrators include Rapha l Hertzog and Roland Mas. ref cite web title Alioth Site Admin Project Info publisher Alioth url http alioth.debian.org projects siteadmin accessdate 2007 09 03 ref External links http alioth.debian.org Website References references Debian Category Debian Linux stub ar es Debian Alioth it Debian Alioth ja Alioth Debian ... more details
and feeds them to Debian Installer via preseeding mechanism so that user doesn t have to select them ..., and is transparently passed on to Debian Installer via preseeding . Similar projects Topologilinux ... links http packages.debian.org lenny win32 loader Package description in Debian http goodbye microsoft.com ... Windows only free software ru Win32 loader uk Win32 loader Debian ... more details
Image Debian System Cover.png thumb 180px The Open Source Press book cover Image Debian System NoStarch Cover.png thumb 180px The No Starch Press book cover The Debian System is a 2005 non fiction book written by Martin Krafft which deals exclusively with Debian GNU Linux , detailing its internal workings. The book is mostly for the experienced users seeking in depth technical knowledge, rather than for beginners. The author s native language is German language German but he decided to write it in Debian s de facto language which is English. The book was written for publication by Open Source Press and later licenced for co publication by No Starch Press . The English version is thus released under two different ISBN s ISBN 978 3 937514 07 9, available only in central Europe . ISBN 978 1 59327 069 8, available worldwide, notable for its Book cover cover featuring a surfing cow . Due to popular demand, the book was later translated to German, Japanese language Japanese , and French language French . A Chinese language Chinese translation is in the works, and other language s are planned http www.opensourcepress.de index.php?26&backPID 178&tt products 52 German edition , ISBN 978 3 937514 17 8, translated by Ute Hertzog and Martin Krafft http book.mycom.co.jp book 4 8399 1897 X 4 8399 1897 X.shtml Japanese edition , ISBN 978 4 8399 1897 2, translated by Kenshi Muto and Junichi Uekawa . http www.editions eyrolles.com Livre 9782212119046 French edition , ISBN 978 2 212 11904 6, translated by Rapha l Hertzog and Roland Mas The book is dedicated to Aline Krafft s girlfriend at the time , and Peter Gabriel , whose contributions to Genesis band Genesis accompanied most of the writing process. Krafft has an agreement with his publisher that after 30,000 copies have been sold, the publisher will have to organise a dinner with the musician pers. comm. 2005 . The publisher sent a book ... DEFAULTSORT Debian System, The Category Debian Category 2005 books Category No Starch Press ... more details
A Debian Pure Blend in short Blend , formerly known as a Custom Debian Distribution is a subset of the Debian Linux distribution that is configured to support a particular target group out of the box. The changes are integrated to the official Debian archives, e.g. Debian Jr. When a Blend is in development, such as Sacix , developed for the city of S o Paulo , some changes can be merged back to the Debian project but the Blend build and all the new or modified packages remains a separate entity. Fact date June 2007 Needs reference to prove that a Blend can contain packages not in Debian. A Debian Pure Blend can contain multiple flavors or profiles e.g. Skolelinux has flavors for main server, workstation, and thin client server . Most of the distributions based on Debian, for example Knoppix , are called children distribution, but not Debian Pure Blends. Existing Blends http www.debian.org devel debian jr Debian Junior Debian for children from 1 to 99 Debian Med Debian in Health Care Skolelinux Debian for Education http wiki.debian.org DebianGis Debian GIS http wiki.debian.org DebianScience Blend Debian Science http www.debian.org devel debian accessibility Debian Accessibility Project Inactive Blends DeMuDi Debian Multimedia Distribution Debian Desktop Debian GNU Linux for everybody Debian Lex Debian GNU Linux for Lawyers Debian NP Debian GNU Linux for Non profit Organisations Debian Enterprise See also http cdd.alioth.debian.org blends Detailed paper about Debian Pure Blends http wiki.debian.org DebianPureBlends Debian Wiki Blends article http lists.debian.org debian blends Blends mailing list Debian Category Debian based distributions Linux distro stub it Debian Pure Blend ... more details
Debian GNU Hurd is the Debian project s distribution of the GNU operating system , using the GNU Hurd microkernel . The current version of Debian GNU Hurd is L1. History Debian GNU Hurd has been in development since 1998, ref cite mailing list title debian hurd lists.debian.org is up url http lists.debian.org debian hurd 1998 07 msg00000.html accessdate 10 September 2009 ref but still has not been officially released. Over 60 ref cite web title Debian Buildd stats page. url http buildd.debian ports.org stats accessdate 20 September 2009 ref of the software packaged for Debian GNU Linux has been ported to the GNU Hurd. However, the Hurd itself remains under development, and as such is not ready for use in production systems. The overwhelming majority of Debian users run Debian GNU Linux, rather than Debian GNU Hurd. Debian GNU Hurd is distributed on a live CD . The CD uses the IA 32 architecture, making it compatible with IA 32 and x86 64 PCs. References Reflist External links Portal Free software http www.debian.org ports hurd Debian GNU Hurd home page http www.superunprivileged.org Superunprivileged.org &mdash provides a GNU Hurd Live CD GNU Debian DEFAULTSORT Debian Gnu Hurd Category Debian GNU Hurd Category Microkernel based operating systems free software stub es Debian GNU Hurd fr Debian GNU Hurd ia Debian GNU Hurd it Debian GNU Hurd lt Debian GNU Hurd ja Debian GNU Hurd pl Debian GNU Hurd pt Debian GNU Hurd ru Debian GNU Hurd zh Debian GNU Hurd ... more details
Multiple issues onesource February 2008 citations missing February 2008 The Debian Social Contract is a document which frames the moral agenda of the Debian project. The values outlined in the Social Contract provide the basic principles for the rules set forth in the Debian Free Software Guidelines . Those guidelines serve as the basis for the Open Source Definition . Debian believes that the makers of a free software operating system should provide certain guarantees when a user entrusts them with control of a computer. These guarantees include Ensuring that the operating system remains open and Free. Giving improvements back to the community which made the operating system possible. Not hiding problems with the software or organization. Staying focused on the users and the software that started the phenomena. Making it possible for the software to be used with non free software. External links http www.debian.org social contract Debian Social Contract and the Free Software Guidelines Debian Category Debian Social Contract ar es Contrato Social de Debian fr Contrat social Debian hu Debian t rsadalmi szerz d s ja Debian pl Umowa spo eczna Debiana ... more details
Non free use rationale Description screenshot of the debian installer win32 loader Debian Source screenshot of the program Portion the Windows Vista theme Low resolution yes Purpose showing program win32 loader Debian Replaceability No free replacement exists Article win32 loader Debian other information Captured with Window Clippings Licensing Non free software screenshot image has rationale yes ... more details
The Debian bug tracking system , or Debbugs , is the bug tracking system used by the Debian project. It was mainly written by Ian Jackson , former Debian project leader, from January 1998 to December 1998. It consists of a set of Scripting language scripts which maintain a database of problem reports. Most of the source code is written in Perl . It is strongly recommended ref cite web url http www.debian.org Bugs Reporting title Reporting bugs in Debian publisher Debian Project accessdate 2010 07 22 ref that people use the reportbug program, when reporting bugs in Debian. Features According to Ian Jackson, the Debian Bug tracking system has the following features ref http www.chiark.greenend.org.uk ... for other projects besides Debian. The system runs on Unix like operating system s such as Unix ... deployment of Debbugs is the Debian s main bug tracking system. ref cite web url http www.debian.org Bugs title Debian bug tracking system publisher Debian Project accessdate 2010 06 07 ref As of January 1997, the Debian Project s instance of debbugs had handled 16000 reports over the past 3 4 years, and had a database of 5000 reports totalling 90Mb. As of 2009, Debian s instance had consisted ... 2009 accessdate 2010 06 07 ref As of 2010 June , the Debian debbugs instance had handled over 580,000 bug reports. ref cite web url http bugs.debian.org cgi bin bugreport.cgi?bug 580000 title Debian Bug report logs 580000 publisher Debian Project date 2010 05 02 accessdate 2010 06 07 ref The GNU ... s Launchpad website Launchpad recognizes and integrates with Debian s debbugs instance. ref cite web url https launchpad.net bugs bugtrackers debbugs title Bug trackers Debian Bug tracker publisher ... tracking systems External links http www.debian.org Bugs Debian bug tracking system http bugs.debian.org debbugs source Source for Debian bug tracking system References references Bug tracking systems DEFAULTSORT Debian Bug Tracking System Category Bug and issue tracking software Category Debian ... more details
Summary book cover fur Article The Debian System Use Header OPTIONAL FIELDS Title The Debian System Author Martin Krafft Publisher Open Source Press Cover artist Website Owner Commentary Year OVERRIDE FIELDS Description Source Portion Low resolution Purpose Replaceability Other information The cover of the Open Source Press book, the Debian system. Licensing Non free book cover ... more details
primarysources date June 2010 Infobox Software name Debian Almquist shell logo developer status latest release version 0.5.6.1 latest release date release date 2010 06 05 latest preview version latest preview date operating system size programming language genre POSIX compliant Unix shell license BSD license , GNU General Public License website http gondor.apana.org.au herbert dash Portal Free software D ebian A lmquist sh ell dash is a Unix shell , much smaller than Bash Unix shell bash but still aiming at POSIX compliancy. It requires less disk space but is also less feature rich . Dash is a direct descendant of the NetBSD version of the Almquist shell Almquist Shell ash . It was ported to Linux by Herbert Xu in early 1997. It was renamed to dash in 2002. Dash, like ash, executes shell script s faster than Bash Unix shell bash and depends on fewer libraries. It is believed ref http packages.debian.org dash ref to be more reliable in the case of upgrade problems or disk failures. dash may be used as a shell on installation floppy disk s root user shell bin sh replacement testing environment ... for ash in Debian and was expected to be the default bin sh for Debian Lenny. ref http release.debian.org lenny goals.txt Release goals for Debian Lenny ref ref http lists.debian.org debian devel announce ... links http gondor.apana.org.au herbert dash Dash home http packages.debian.org stable dash Debian package overview http bugs.debian.org cgi bin pkgreport.cgi?users debian release lists.debian.org&tag goal dash Debian bugs tagged goal dash Dash as default bin sh in http wiki.debian.org DashAsBinSh Debian ... Dash mailing list archive http wiki.debian.org Shell Shells in DebianDebian Unix Shells DEFAULTSORT Debian Almquist Shell Category Debian Category Unix shells Category Ubuntu operating system Unix stub ca Debian Almquist shell cs Debian Almquist shell el Almquist Debian es Debian Almquist Shell fr Debian Almquist shell it Debian Almquist shell ja Debian Almquist shell ru Debian Almquist ... more details
The Debian Free Software Guidelines DFSG is a set of guidelines that the Debian Project uses to determine ... a piece of software can be included in Debian. The DFSG is part of the Debian Social Contract . The guidelines .... License must not be specific to Debian, basically a reiteration of the last point. License must ... together with the first version of the Debian Social Contract in July 1997. ref cite web author Bruce Perens url http lists.debian.org debian announce debian announce 1997 msg00017.html title Debian s Social Contract with the Free Software Community work debian announce mailing list ref The primary authors were Bruce Perens and several other Debian developers at the time. The Open Source Definition ... 1129863&cid 26875815 when I had to write license guidelines for Debian, the Four Freedoms document was unknown ... debian devel 1998 11 msg01944.html Draft new DFSG , debian devel mailing list ref that the problems ... covered by the DFSG. The Debian General Resolution 2004 003, ref http www.debian.org ... stated ref Andrew Suffield http lists.debian.org debian vote 2004 01 msg00692.html Re Candidate social contract amendments part 1 editorial 3rd draft , debian vote mailing list ref The rule is this resolution ... to keep the Debian GNU Linux Distribution entirely free software into We promise that the Debian ... a practical change ref Anthony Towns http lists.debian.org debian devel 2004 04 msg01929.html Social Contract GR s effect on Sarge , debian devel mailing list ref As SC 1 is no longer limited to software ... Most discussions about the DFSG happen on the debian legal mailing list. When a Debian Developer first uploads a package for inclusion in Debian, the ftpmaster team checks the software licenses and determines whether they are in accordance with the social contract. The team sometimes confers with the debian ... the confusion, in June 2004 the Debian project decided to explicitely apply the same principles to software documentation , multimedia data and other content. The non program content of Debian began to comply ... more details
Image Debian source package.png right frame A typical input of the Debian build tools three files constituting the source package the bottom and the unpacked source tree with a code debian code subdirectory added there by the package maintainer. The Debian build toolchain is a collection of software utilities used to create Debian source packages code .dsc code and Deb file format Debian binary packages ... are used in the Debian project and also in Debian based distributions such as Ubuntu operating system ... tar archives called tarballs. Debian is a binary oriented distribution, meaning that its code ... that the software expects. The Debian build toolchain thus needs instructions on how to use the upstream ... debian code subdirectory, which is added to the source tree for the software being packaged by the package ... the maintainer made to the upstream sources in redistributable form. Source packages A typical Debian ... in tarball form, or if the maintainer needs to remove files not compatible with the Debian Free ... by the package maintainer. This includes the entire code debian code directory and any modified files .... For example, a source package named code foo code with upstream version 1.2.3 and Debian revision ... debian code directory The code debian code directory contains files used by code dpkg buildpackage code ... code spec code file for instructions, the Debian tools use an entire subdirectory with multiple files ... control code and code rules code . A fourth file, code copyright code , is mandated by the Debian ... in a diff, all files in the code debian code directory are text files, most of which are human readable and edited with a simple text editor. code debian changelog code This file contains information ... entry, which is used to determine the package version, urgency which is only of relevance to Debian ... foo code , an example code debian changelog code entry can read like this source lang text foo 1.2.3 ... 04 edit button crash.dpatch fix a crash after pressing the edit button. Closes 654321 debian control ... more details
Beschreibung Screenshot of Debian s Iceweasel on Debian GNU Linux 4.0 showing the about page. Licensing self GFDL cc by sa 2.5,2.0,1.0 migration relicense ... more details
Summary book cover fur Article The Debian System Use Header OPTIONAL FIELDS Title The Debian System Author Martin Krafft Publisher Open Source Press Cover artist Website Owner Commentary Year OVERRIDE FIELDS Description Source Portion Low resolution Purpose Replaceability Other information The cover of the No Starch Press book, the Debian system. Licensing Non free book cover ... more details
Summary Information Description Screenshot of the DOA Homepage taken from a Debian testing server, using Opera 9.64. Ends showing browser have been cropped Source I User Jayflux Jayflux User talk Jayflux talk created this work entirely by myself. Date 01 15, 17 September 2009 UTC Author User Jayflux Jayflux User talk Jayflux talk other versions Licensing PD self date September 2009 ... more details
Summary Information Description Screenshot of the DOA Homepage taken from a Debian testing server, using Opera 9.64. Ends showing browser have been cropped Source I User Jayflux Jayflux User talk Jayflux talk created this work entirely by myself. Date 01 23, 17 September 2009 UTC Author User Jayflux Jayflux User talk Jayflux talk other versions Licensing PD self date September 2009 ... more details
Rootstrap is set of shell scripts for installing Debian Linux . External links http linuxappfinder.com package rootstrap Rootstrap on LinuxAppFinder Category Debian Linux stub ... more details
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