Debian is a universal operating system that supports a wide variety of architectures. It has over 30,000 packages and is widely used in servers and desktops, such as Ubuntu. Debian was started in 1993 by Ian Murdock and takes its name from his daughter Debra. It undergoes extensive testing through unstable and testing branches before software is declared stable. Ubuntu derives 90% of its packages from Debian unstable and helps test packages. There are many ways for users to contribute, such as reporting bugs, localizing the desktop, and coding new applications.

1. Debain- Universal Operating system Pavithran Sakamuri

2. Universal ? Supports Wide variety of architectures (SPARC -> Netbooks) More than 30,000 packages

3. Widely used as in servers and desktops (ubuntu)

4. How did it all start ? August 16 th 1993 by Ian Murdock Spirit of GNU and Linux

5. named after "debra"

6. version 1.1(June 1996) had 474 packages and has dpkg

7. 2.1(march 1999) included apt and had 2250 packages

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