Free Software :: Debian Project

News, Discussion & Events

• Debian Weekly News
• Security Alerts
• News ML (Developers Announce ML) (Developers ML) (Debian Project ML) (Other ML archives) (Search ML archives)
• Debian Conferences and Events (DebConf 2001) (2002) (2003)
• Planet Debian (Debian developers journal aggregation site)
• DebianPlanet (News site)
• Debaday (Each day a Debian package introduction)
• Debian Plaza (User forum site)
• DebianHelp (User help site)
• Design2i Debian Forum
• DebianForum (German site)
• DebianForum (Danish site)
• DebianWorld (French site)
• EsDebian (Spanish site)
• BarraPunto (Spanish site)
• Debian-BR (Brazilian-Portuguese site)
• DebianPT (Portuguese site)
• MaximumDebian (Italian site)
• Debian Russia
• LinuxNews.pl (Polish "Debian Weekly News")
• Debian Romania
• DebianUsers (South Korean site)
• Debian Jewellery (Collection of art pieces based upon the Debian swirl)
• Debian DistroWatch (OS review site)

Official Debian Distributions

• Supported hardware architectures (Officially supported: Alpha, ARM, HP PA-RISC, Intel x86, Intel IA-64, Motorola 680x0, MIPS, MIPS (DEC), PowerPC, IBM S/390, SPARC)
• Debian Stable (currently named Sarge) (packages) (Release Notes)
• Debian Testing (currently named Etch) (packages)
• Debian Unstable (currently named Sid) (packages)
• Older Distributions Archive (Woody v3.0, Potato v2.2, Slink v2.1, Hamm v2.0, Bo v1.3, Rex v.1.2 and Buzz v1.1)
• Debian CD images (DDDI Online Debian CD-ROM ordering system)

Unofficial Debian Ports

• Debian GNU Hurd/GnuMach (GNU/Hurd home) (cvs) (ml)
• Debian NetBSD (Debian upon a NetBSD kernel) (cvs) (ml)
• Debian FreeBSD (Debian upon a FreeBSD kernel) (ml)
• Debian GNU/w32 (Debian package system and packages for M$ w32 variants using Cygwin) (ml)
• Fink (Initiative to port Free Software to MacOS X, including the Debian tools "dpkg" and "apt-get".) (cvs) (ml)
• Xebian (Debian GNU/Linux for the M$ Xbox) (cvs) (ml)
• Debian-iMac (Collection of files and instructions needed for installing Debian on an iMac PPC computer, without needing a floppy drive. Inactive project.) (cvs)
• SuperH (Debian GNU/Linux on the Hitachi SuperH architecture. Inactive project.)
• PS2-Hacking (Using the commercial PS2 GNU/Linux Kit with Debian. Inactive project.)
• Debian-i586 (i586 optimized Debian GNU/Linux variant. Inactive project.)

Debian based Sub Projects (not language specific)

• Debian Desktop (Debian usability improvement project for home and corporate desktops users)
• Debian Hardened (Project to improve the security capabilities of Debian) (cvs) (ml)
• Debian Secure By Default (Project to improve the security capabilities of Debian)
• Debian Accessibility (Project to ensure that Debian is accessible to people with disabilities. Blind people can use BRLSpeak.) (ml)
• Agnula ("A GNU Linux Audio distribution") (ml)
• Kalyxo (Project to improve the KDE integration in Debian)
• Skolelinux (Debian distribution aimed at schools) (ml)
• Debian-Med (Collection of medical care applications) (ml)
• Debian-Lex (Collection of legal practice applications) (ml)
• Debian-NP (Collection of applications for small non-profit organizations) (ml)
• Adamantix (RSBAC based Debian extensions) (ml)
• Debian SE Linux (Collection of Linux kernel and application patches to run the SE Linux system on a Debian system) (ml)
• FAI ("Fully Automatic Installation". Scalable network based setup/installation system) (cvs) (ml)
• Debian Beowulf (Collection of applications to make Debian suitable for Beowulf clusters) (ml)
• XFDeb(Project to integrate XFS and GFS into Debian)
• DebBlue (Collection of consistent Debian themes for: the GRUB bootloader, the login screen, the desktop background, etc.) (forum)
• Debart (Debian GNU/Linux graphics project)
• Debian HAM (Debian GNU/Linux optimized for amateur radio operations) (ml)
• Debian Junior (Debian for children from 7 to 12) (ml)
• Debian Enterprise (Debian aimed at 'for-profit' organizations. See also the UserLinux project.)

Debian based Language Projects

• Debian JP (Debian for Japanese speaking people)
• IndLinux (Morphix based Debian for Hindi speaking people)
• Linex (Desktop distribution for Spanish speaking people. Linex was developed for the regional government of Extremadura in Spain.) (cvs) (ml)
• Pingoo (Debian for French speaking people)
• Debian-BR (Debian for Portugese speaking people)
• Impi (Knoppix based Debian for South-African speaking people)
• TrX (Turkish language based Knoppix variant) (ml)

Other Debian based Distributions

• Debian based distribution list
• Ubuntu Linux (Desktop distributon with a focus on the GNOME desktop) (ml) (forums) (Planet Ubuntu developers journal) (wp)
• Kubuntu (Ubuntu based desktop distributon with a focus on the KDE desktop) (wp)
• Knoppix (Desktop distribution which runs from a CD-ROM) (ml) (Building a custom Debian CD from Knoppix) (wp)
• Morphix (Modular Knoppix variant. There are pre-build CD-ROM ISO's available with GNOME, KDE, XFCE or games.) (cvs) (ml)
• Gnoppix (GNOME based Knoppix variant) (cvs) (ml)
• ClusterKnoppix (Knoppix variant which uses the OpenMosix system for transparent network clustering) (ml)
• KnoppMyth (Knoppix based MythTV installation CD) (forum)
• Quantian (Knoppix variant tailored to numerical and quantitative analysis tasks)
• DebToo (Debian distro which can build packages from source using the 'apt-build' tool. Alpha status.) (cvs) (ml)
• Skolelinux (School desktop distribution) (cvs) (ml)
• Pebble (Debian variant for 'embedded' wireless devices. Pebble is designed to fit on a 128 MB flash card.)
• Oralux (Knoppix variant for vision impaired people)
• BRLSpeak (Debian for blind people. It includes support for braille and computer speech)
• DeadCD (Small - less than 100 MB - Debian livecd)
• Damn Small Linux (Knoppix variant which fits on a 50MB business card size CD-ROM)
• Familiar (Handheld computer distribution) (iPKG a lightweight and partial re-implementation of dpkg's functionality) (ml)
• TeleMetryBox (Fully automated network diagnostics and reporting system) (ml)
• Euronode (Router/firewall distribution) (cvs) (ml)
• Gibraltar (Commercial CD-ROM based router/firewall distribution) (ml)
• EngardeLinux (Commercial, security focussed distribution for servers)
• Libranet (Commercial desktop distribution)
• Xandros (Commercial desktop distribution, originally named "Corel Linux". Xandros formed the base for the "Linspire" distribution.)
• Linpire (Commercial desktop distribution, which was based on the Xandros distribution.)
• Emdebian (Project to make Debian better suited for embedded systems. Inactive project.) (cvs) (ml)
• Aid Server (Project to enable email communication in areas with low-quality network conditions. UUCP is an important part of this system. Inactive project.)

Package Sites

• Official Sites (Currently there are about 376 public Debian mirrors) (local copy)
• Debian Backports (Portal site for finding recompiled Debian packages from 'testing' and 'unstable', so they will run without new/updated libraries on a stable Debian distribution.)
• Unofficial Sites
• Debian Mentors (Publically accessible, non-official, Debian package archive)
• IPv6 Debian Packages (Experimental Debian package archive for IPv6 enabled software) (package site mirrors)
• Debian Snapshots (Package site which still contains Debian packages which have been removed from the official Debian archives)
• Package Tracking System (Web tool which shows meta-information about packages)
• Debian Package Popularity Contest (more)

User Documentation

• User Documentation Index
• Debian User FAQ
• Debian Wiki
• Debian Reference (High-quality, localized, Debian user documentation)
• "Learning Debian GNU/Linux" (Book published by O'Reilly)
• Debian-Administration.org (Debian system administration tips and resources)
• AboutDebian (Debian specific user howto's for a variety of setups and tasks)
• APT Guide
• Debian UTF8 Howto
• "Installing Debian on 4 MB RAM"
• "Mosix on Debian GNU/Linux mini-howto"
• Debian X-terminal
• Debian Chroot Install
• Debian Kerberos/SASL/LDAP
• "Embedding Debian GNU/Linux in a 32MB CompactFlash" (Needed to install Debian on an 32 MB RAM OpenBrick PC)
• "Running Debian on Soekris Engineering Embedded Systems"
• Debian on a S*ny Vai* PCG-R600HFPD

User Applications

• debconf (Configuration system for Debian packages) (cdebconf C based rewrite of debconf)
• kernel-package (This package contains "make-kpkg", a perl script which makes building, installing and managing Linux kernels a lot easier.)
• Aptitude (Ncurses based frontend to apt, dpkg and debconf. Aptitude can be seen as the next-generation "deselect".) (cvs) (ml)
• APT Secure (APT variant to verify the authenticity of Debian packages through OpenPGP key-rings of the 'debian-keyring' package. Beta status.)
• APT-Got (Apt-get frontend for downloading Debian packages in parallel) (cvs)
• APT-Fu (Tool for downloading, modifying, building, and installing of Debian binary packages from the Debian source packages. APT-Fu can also automatically modify fields in control files, automatically apply patches, and run other modifications through scripts known as 'optFiles'.)
• dpatch (Patch system for Debian source packages) (cvs)
• apt-build (apt-get front-end for compiling software optimized for your architecture)
• APT-proxy (Small proxy for efficiently caching apt-get requests for multiple Debian boxes) (cvs)
• apt-mirror (Tool to mirror parts of Debian package mirrors)
• dpartialmirror (Build or upgrade a local partial mirror from a Debian package mirror using rsync)
• debsync (Python based tool to synchronise the installed packages on Debian hosts) (cvs)
• debian-updates (Perl script which sends an email about packages needing security updates)
• FETA (Commandline based frontend to apt, dpkg, debconf and many other commands. It tries to give the Debian packaging system a more consistent interface.)
• Synaptic (GTK+ based graphical front-end for Debian and RPM package management) (svn) (ml)
• Pseudo Image Kit (Tool to help create your own Debian CD ISO images)
• GNOME2 for Debian
• Kpackage (KDE based tool for for installing, viewing and uninstalling packages. Package formats supported: RPM, Debian, Slackware and BSD package manager. Inactive project.)
• GDPM (Python/GNOME based frontend to apt, apt-cache, dpkg and debconf. Inactive project.) (cvs)
• JTE ("Jigdo Template Export". Patch to mkisofs to write .jigdo and .template files alongside the ISO image.)

Development Infrastructure

Developers

• Organizational Structure
• Debian Developers (Search)
• Developers package information tool
• Developer Locations

Developer Documentation

• Developer Documentation Index
• New Maintainers
• Developers Reference
• Social Contract
• Constitution
• Policy Manual
• "How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable"

- Software

• Debian Project CVS Repository
• Debian Alioth (Debian-related projects development site) (Subversion projects) (Arch projects) (arch)
• dpkg.org ("Debian package manager" development site) (ml)

- Communication

• Mailinglist Archives (Search Archives) (Statistics on # of subscribers and # of posts)
• News ML (Developers Announce ML) (Developers ML)

- Quality Assurance

• Debian Quality Assurance Project (ml)
• Debian Security Audit Project (Debian Security Alerts) (ml)
• Package Tracking System (Web tool which shows meta-information about packages)
• Debian Package Auto-Builder (Debian package auto-building system) (auto-builder reports)
• Bug Tracking System
• Lintian (Debian package checker)

Quality Status Reports

• Release Critical Bug Overview
• Base Packages Bug's
• Standard Packages Bug's
• Statistics on broken Depends, Oldlibs, Priorities etc.
• Binary packages without a manual page
• Lintian report by package name (by tag type)
• WNP Packages (Work needing and prospective packages)
• Debian package auto-builder reports)