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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 includes popular free programs such as LibreOffice, [87] Firefox web browser, Evolution mail, K3b disc burner, VLC media player, GIMP image editor, and Evince document viewer. [86] Debian is a popular choice for servers, for example as the operating system component of a LAMP stack. [88] [89]
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 family tree. Debian (a portmanteau of the names "Deb" and "Ian") Linux is a distribution that emphasizes free software. It supports many hardware platforms. Debian and distributions based on it use the .deb package format [2] and the dpkg package manager and its frontends (such as apt or synaptic). [3]
Free APSL, GPL and others Workstation, Home Desktop, Server: The kernel and certain userland components of macOS and iOS: TrueOS: iXsystems, Inc. 2006-04-29 FreeBSD: 18.12 2018-12-15 Free BSD: Server: Easy to use while maintaining full use of FreeBSD base GhostBSD: Eric Turgeon 2009-11-01 FreeBSD: 24.01.1 2024-02-13 Free BSD: Desktop, Workstation
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Version 1.2.0 is based on Debian 8 (Jessie). While version 1.0 and 1.1 were named after elements, a new naming scheme based on constellations is used from version 1.2. [20] VyOS 1.3.0 (Equuleus) is based on Debian 10 (Buster) [21] and was released on December 21, 2021. Equuleus brought many long-desired features, most notably an SSTP VPN server ...
This decision prompted some Debian community members to start a fork of Debian without systemd. [8] Instead of continuing the Debian practice of using Toy Story character names as release codenames, [9] Devuan aliases its releases using planet names. The first stable release shared the Debian 8 codename Jessie.