| Debian | … |
|---|---|
| Debian Open Use Logo | … |
| Developer | Debian Project |
| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Free |
| Initial release | 16 August 1993 |
| Latest release | 13.5 “Trixie” / 16 May 2026 |
| Latest preview | 14 “Forky”1 |
| Repository | deb.debian.org |
| Marketing target | General-purpose |
| Available in | 77 languages2 |
| Update method | APT |
| Package manager | dpkg |
| Instruction sets | • amd64 • arm64 • armel • armhf • ppc64el • riscv64 • s390x 3 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
| Userland | GNU Core Utilities |
| Default user interface | GNOME45 |
| License | Free licenses compliant with DFSG |
| Official website | debian.org |
| Tagline | The Universal Operating System |
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Footnotes
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Evenden, Ian (October 13, 2022). “Debian 14 To Be Named ‘Forky’, Won’t Arrive Until 2027”. Tom’s Hardware. Retrieved May 19, 2026. ↩
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“Debian 13”trixie”released”. Debian. August 9, 2025. Retrieved May 19, 2026. The number 78 is wrong, because the page that lists the translations references Norwegian Nynorsk twice. ↩
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“2. What’s new in Debian 13”. Debian Release Notes. 2025. Retrieved May 19, 2026. ↩
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Others available in Debian-Installer are: Xfce, KDE Plasma, LXDE, GNOME Flashback, Cinnamon, MATE and LXQt ↩
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“Details of package task-desktop in trixie”. Debian Packages. Retrieved May 19, 2026. Metapackage used by tasksel in Debian-Installer to pull a desktop environment ↩