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Debian Weekly News
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News ML
(Developers Announce ML)
(Developers ML)
(Debian Project ML)
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Debian Conferences and Events
(DebConf 2001)
(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)
DebianForum (German site)
DebianWorld (French site)
EsDebian (Spanish site)
BarraPunto (Spanish site)
Debian-BR (Brazilian-Portuguese site)
DebianPT (Portuguese site)
MaximumDebian (Italian site)
DebianUsers (South Korean site)
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)
(ml)
Debian NetBSD (Debian
upon a NetBSD kernel)
(ml)
Debian FreeBSD
(Debian upon a FreeBSD kernel)
(ml)
(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".) (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.)
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)
Debian Beowulf (Collection of applications to make Debian suitable for Beowulf clusters) (ml)
XFDeb(Project to
integrate XFS and
GFS into Debian)
(Collection of consistent Debian themes for: the GRUB bootloader,
the login screen, the desktop background, etc.)
(forum)
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.)
(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.)
(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.)