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Debian

, created by the 'Debian Project', it's a free released
containing free software is developed through the collaboration of volunteers from every part of the world.

Story & origin of the name:

Debian derives from the name of the developer, Ian Murdock, and from the first three
letters of the name of his girlfriend, Debra. Since the beginnig the system released,
Debian GNU/Linux, was based on the Linux Kernel with many base-utilies of the operating system of the project GNU.
Ian Murdock, not satisfied from the diffused distribution linux to the age, the SLS, after to have applied of the corrections to the same one,
determined to create one distribution alternative, leaving from zero and only using Free Software;
it called its Debian distribution and of it it announced the 16 development August 1993
on the newsgroup comp.os.linux.development.

Characteristics:

Debian is known for its adhesion to the GNU philosophies and of the free software,
the rigid political with regard to the quality of the packages and the release, the open way to develop and to test software
and the freedom of choice granted to utente.
the Debian Project have formalized with its customers questi
engagements through the ?Social Contract Debian? and the ?Lines Debian Guide for the Free Software?.
The last stable release of Debian contains more than 15.000 packages software for one ten of architectures,
that they go from architecture ARM, commonly used in the systems embedded and Mainframe IBM s390,
to the most common x86 and PowerPC present in the modern ones personal computer.
The Debian plan has between its objects that one to you to create ?the universal operating system?:
they have been develops you of the port for others kernel, between which GNU Hurd, Solaris, NetBSD, and FreeBSD.
These port still have not been rilasciati officially and therefore, at the moment,
Debian is exclusively one GNU/Linux.
distribution Debian is supported from donations through ?Software in the Public Interest? (SPI Inc.),
one organization non-profit for the software plans libero.
Recently it has been inserted also a installer graphical
, still in phase of test it is possible to use it digitando installgui or expertgui.

System of management of the packages:

Debian also is known for its system di
management of the packages and APT (Advanced Packaging Tool, introduced from version 2,1).
the system of management of the packages of Debian is between more advances existing and integral
a system to you of resolution of the dependencies, the possibility to carry out a lot easy a upgrade
(of some packages or of the entire operating system) and the possibility to pass from a release to altra.
an installation, the configuration and the removal of the packages are become simpler but flexible,
and it does not need nearly never of a reboot of the computer,
così as it is supported the modernization of programs in esecuzione.
It is possible moreover to stir coming from packages from different release of Debian,
creando a system ibrido.
The packages are always settled (from customer root) with these commandos:

apt-get install  # it installs package  resolving the necessary ones dipendenze
 apt-get remove  # it removes the package 
 apt-get remove --purge  # it removes package  and the relati to you rows of configurazione
 apt-get update # it unloads the last lists of packages available from the repositories
 apt-get upgrade # it modernizes all the packages of the system to the more recent version disponibile
 apt-get dist-upgrade # it modernizes the version of Ubuntu
 apt-cache search  # it previously tries a package from the name similar to that past from line of comando
 dpkg - .deb #installa a package deb in the system scaricato

The packages of the release official are collected in arch accessible via Internet.
the packages to you contained in it arches you of the several ones release are it groups to you, among other things,
for type of licence software.
It is from noticing that although the repository official contains also not free software, often, for restrictions due to the licences,
they do not contain not free software of great popolarità (es.: Real Player, Acrobat Reader),
che are however reperibile through the use of it arches to you not ufficiali.
Debian includes the possibility ricompilare and at the same time pacchettizzare
a kernel personalized, therefore like, through the
pacchetto module-assistant, that one to remarkablly simplify the compilation and pacchettizzazione
of new modules of the kernel, automating of the download of sources, preparation
di the atmosphere for the compilation and even the compilation for architectures multiple.
From last, repository the Debian contains sources of all the packages of software libero.
Is possible ricompilare whichever package (or also all i packages of the entire system in a single time)
through the use of the package apt-build, than but at the moment are not considered completely stable.

Fork:

By the Debian Project was born some fork.
Between these we remember
Kanotix Live Cd
Knoppix Live Cd
Mepis
Morphix
Ubuntu

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