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Although the distro was famously difficult to install not so long ago, I'd say
that has changed a lot in the past decade or so. Not only does it have a
regular looking GUI installer (which I never use anyways; I find the curses-based
installer much faster and reliable to use, anyways) these days, but it
appears to autodetect all the hardware every single time I install it. In any
case, I have been running Debian for about 15 years now. One has to admire how
a group of volunteers from all over the world came together to design this
tremendously solid and stable distribution. Some say it lags behind quite a
bit, but sure that is not a problem for a server. Besides, I don't know about
you but, when it comes to my main work desktop computer (well, laptop,
actually), I very much prefer the stability provided by Debian, even if I'm not
running the "latest and greatest" software. Some other people say it is "too
political" because it sticks to free software only, but that also removes
unnecessary headaches for the system administrators. If you install Debian, you
know you will not be getting in trouble with licensing issues, sudden changes
in company strategies, etc.
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Official document narrating the history of Debian itself. Contributed and maintained
by a few people, including some who were involved in the project from the very
beginning.
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The cornerstone of the whole Debian community, this contract is a set of
commitments that the Debian agrees to abide by. Incidentally, it was also
used as the basis for the Open
Source Definition
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A succint explanation of what "free" means in the context of free software.
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Some people hate Debian's picky attitude towards licensing but, on the other
hand, if you need some thorough information on the different open source
licenses and what they entail there is no better place to go to.
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Article by Jake Edge published by Linux Weekly News in October 2024 covering
a presentation by Debian developer Samuel Henrique at DebConf24 explaining how
the Debian project works, the tools, etc.
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The official repository of tips and information for the Debian project,
unless you are looking for the lengthier
Debian documentation, of course.
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The official website for the periodic DebConf conferences. It includes plenty
of videos from all conferences so far. In a webm open format, of course.
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Collection of Debian-related blogs from all over the world. Something similar
to Planet GNOME but for the Debian
community. It gathers blog entries from people involved in Debian, although
the topics range from technology to movies and hobbies.
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Information about distributions based on Debian but with their own identity.
These derivatives "modify Debian to achieve the goals they set for themselves."
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How many times have we heard that comment? "Sure, Debian is cool but the
stable branch is soo far behind..." Well, this website comes in to fill that
void, allowing you to install newer packages in stable.
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If you run Debian on multiple machines in your network, Apt-Cacher is the
project for you. It's a CGI script that will keep a cache of Debian packages
so you don't need to download them from outside your network all the time.
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Detailed online documentation on how to create customer kernel packages using
the make-kpkg command.
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Software to automate Linux installs and software distributions. It is not
specifically written for Debian, but it works fine with it.
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Information on how to build a totally customized Debian CD with your own
personal distro.
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