Debian
The universal operating system: rock-solid, community-run and the base of hundreds of other distros. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- Debian Project
- Created by
- Ian Murdock
- First release
- 1993
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.debian.org
- Family
- Debian
- Based on
- Independent
- Package manager
- APT
- Package format
- deb
- Release model
- Fixed releases
- Release cadence
- About every 2 years
- Support lifetime
- 3 years, 5 with LTS
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- GNOME (choice in the installer)
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Desktop, Server, Containers
- Backed by
- A community
- Beginner friendliness
- 3 of 5
- Architectures
- amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x