Debian operating system

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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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30 years of Debian - Debian Day 2023 (wiki.debian.org)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think my first install was in 1995 or so. Moved to simpler rpm systems partly because of alpha and SPARC support. Then moved to Debian again maybe 2001 or so since my workplace servers were mostly Debian and I got used to it.

Glibc and devfs migrations were a pain, but otherwise it's always been solid.

Edit: dog ate my comment. Or so I thought.