General notes about Debian

Debian is a community driven Linux distribution. Ubuntu Linux is based on Debian.

Debian 12 is the newest stable release and is named ‘bookworm’. See https://www.debian.org/releases/ for more details. ‘testing’ refers to the next stable release (named trixie, Debian 13). The ‘unstable’ distribution is always named ‘sid’.

If you are a developer and interested in the newest developments, I recommend installing the ‘testing’ distribution.

Other resources you might want to check out:

• Debian documentation
• Many discussions take place via email on the Debian mailing lists.
• The Debian gitlab server with e.g. the Debian Linux kernel source repository.
• The Debian bug database.
• For individual Debian packages, a nice overview page e.g. for the Linux kernel is available at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linux.
• development server machines at Debian.
• Debian build server
• links for Germans:
  • https://www.debian-paketmanagement.de/
  • https://debianforum.de/forum/
  • https://www.linuxmintusers.de/index.php?action=wiki;page=Kurze_Einfuehrung