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Debian Unstable, known as "Sid", contains all the latest packages as soon as they are available, and follows a rolling-release model. [6]Once a package has been in Debian Unstable for 2-10 days (depending on the urgency of the upload), doesn't introduce critical bugs and doesn't break other packages (among other conditions), it is included in Debian Testing, also known as "next-stable".
Debian (/ ˈ d ɛ b i ə n /), [7] [8] also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a free and open source [b] Linux distribution, developed by the Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock in August 1993. Debian is one of the oldest operating systems based on the Linux kernel, and is the basis for many other Linux distributions.
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Some distributions like Debian tend to separate tools into different packages – usually stable release, development release, documentation and debug. Also counting the source package number varies. For debian and rpm based entries it is just the base to produce binary packages, so the total number of packages is the number of binary packages.
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD: The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD team 2011-02-06 GNU, FreeBSD: 7.5 2014-04-26 Free DFSG General purpose GNU userspace on FreeBSD kernel Debian GNU/NetBSD: The Debian GNU/kNetBSD team Abandoned GNU, NetBSD: Abandoned Abandoned Free DFSG General purpose GNU userspace on NetBSD kernel MidnightBSD [49] Lucas Holt 2007-08-04 FreeBSD 6.1 ...
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Debian, Ubuntu and many others use Debian-Installer. The process of constantly switching between distributions is often referred to as "distro hopping". [46] [47] Virtual machine software such as VirtualBox and VMware Workstation virtualize hardware allowing users to test live media on a virtual machine without installing to the real system.