small presentation about debian project

1. Debain- Universal Operating system Pavithran Sakamuri

3. Widely used as in servers and desktops (ubuntu)

5. named after "debra"

6. version 1.1(June 1996) had 474 packages and has dpkg

7. 2.1(march 1999) included apt and had 2250 packages

8. Version

10. Libraries and compilers like glibc,gcc,perl & python

11. Desktop Environments like KDE or GNOME or XFCE

12. Office suites and other applications

14. A DD gets the code and compiles for his architecture

15. Submits it for review

16. If there are no bugs it enters unstable

17. Unstable is used by Ubuntu and Debian testing

18. Debian testing->Stable after extensive testing

20. The debian unstable packages are modified/patched to suit its tool chain versions

21. Ubuntu helps Debian testing with a huge no of use case testing on Desktop

23. Improvements: please file a bug !

24. Debian on local language: help achieve 100 % localised desktop

25. Coding: Squash bugs and package a new application into Debian

26. How do I start ? Debconf 2010 at Pune :)