Date: 11 - June 2011
Speaker: Jwalitha N J
Ubuntu , fedora, Open Suse are few of the commercial Linux distribution where as debian is a noncommercial community based Linux distribution .Linux distribution is a member of the family of Unix like operating system built on top of Linux kernel.
Lan Murdock released debian in the year 1993 on 16th August. The name debian was a combination of his own name and the name of his girlfriend at the time, Debry Lynn(deb + an).
Debian is a open source free software where users has granted rights of user to use study,change and improve its design through availability of source code.
It has some of the GNU OS tools. The GNU General Public License (GNU or GPL) is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project.
Hardware requirements for a desktop is minimal RAM is 128 MB and hard disk space is 5 GB.The recommended RAM is 128 MB.
Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian Linux. Debian Linux OS is being used by the world’s largest online shopping system Ebay.
There were many versions released of Debian. Few of them along with its code names are given:
- 1.1 - BUZZ
- 1.2 - REX
- 1.3 - BO
- 2.2 - POTATO
- 3.0 - WODDY
- 6.0 - SQUEEZE
- 7.0 – WHEEZY
These code names are based on toy story characters.
Debion stands fifth in the world and ubuntu stands first in the world. Both of them cannot be compared since ubuntu is the derivative of Debian Linux.
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