Distribution with more than 8000 software packages, which allow an easy installation and configuration of distributed software that is unrivaled in any other Linux distribution and is also one of the few non-commercial distribution.
Thanks to a bug tracking system you can report a problem and possible bug in the system, the distribution is continually updated and pays particular attention to solving these types of issues.
Debian GNU/Linux is divided into three release:
- stable
contains the latest official releases of the distribution. - testing (sarge)
contains all those packages that have not yet been accepted into the stable release and then queued for approval. - unstable (sid)
contains all the latest versions of packages, this distribution is usually used by developers.
Supported Platforms:
Intel x86 / IA-32 (“i386”)
Motorola 68k (“m68k”)
Sun SPARC (“sparc”)
Alpha (“alpha”)
Motorola/IBM PowerPC (“powerpc”)
ARM (“arm”)
MIPS CPUs (“mips” and “mipsel”)
HP PA-RISC (“hppa”)
IA-64 (“ia64”)
S/390 (“s390”)
More information:
http://www.debian.org
