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Debian - Debian Social Contract Debian Free Software Debian Constitution with the Free Software Guidelines (1997) (1998) community (1997) The Base of the Open Structures and rules of * 100% Free Sotware Source Definition a Free-Software- * Don’t hide problems compatible democracy * Give back Helps decide what is Project * Priorities: part of Debian Users & Free Software credativ 2017 www.credativ.com License Debian ● must allow free redistribution ● must include source code Free ● must allow modifications and derived works ● must not discriminate against person or groups Software ● must not discriminate against fields of endeavor ● must be distributable Guidelines ● must not be specific to Debian ● must not restrict other software credativ 2017 www.credativ.com Jessie Debian Source Binary - Main 20,626 248,089 Packages Contrib 134 905 Non-free 281 1151 credativ 2017 www.credativ.com Debian - Releases credativ 2017 www.credativ.com Architectures - Old and New - Big and Small (c) Bill Bertram credativ 2017 www.credativ.com amd64: x86-64 architecture with 64-bit userland and supporting 32-bit software Debian arm64: ARMv8-A architecture armel: Little-endian ARM architecture (ARMv4T instruction set) armhf: ARM hard-float architecture (ARMv7 instruction set) - i386: IA-32 architecture with 32-bit userland, compatible with x86-64 machines mips: Big-endian MIPS architecture Official mipsel: Little-endian MIPS architecture powerpc: PowerPC architecture Ports ppc64el: Little-endian PowerPC64 supporting POWER7+ and POWER8 CPUs s390x: z/Architecture with 64-bit userland credativ 2017 www.credativ.com alpha: DEC Alpha architecture Debian hppa: HP PA-RISC architecture hurd-i386: GNU Hurd kernel on IA-32 architecture - kfreebsd-amd64: Kernel of FreeBSD on x86-64 architecture kfreebsd-i386: Kernel of FreeBSD on IA-32 architecture m68k: Motorola 68k architecture on Amiga, Atari, Macintosh and VME systems Unofficial powerpcspe: PowerPCSPE architecture ppc64: PowerPC64 architecture supporting 64-bit PowerPC CPUs with VMX Ports sh4: Hitachi SuperH architecture sparc64: Sun SPARC architecture with 64-bit userland x32: x32 ABI userland for x86-64 credativ 2017 www.credativ.com Culture of technical excellence Debian Stefano Zacchiroli (DPL, 2010) ● Package maintainers are software experts Is ● Package maintainers make decisions about their packages ● Policy defines packaging Special ● Automated testing ● Automated building #1 ● All packages are equal ● Release if and when software is ready ● Users involved in all steps