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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
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Can we just drop the codenames and simply use the numbers? What's the point? Those names are a fucking mess, create more confusion than help new people and add no benefit to anything.
I really like the way Ubuntu handles it, basing the number on the release date. Your average person would have no idea how old Debian 10 is without googling it, but figuring out that Ubuntu 19.10 released in 2019 is trivial
Okay Natty Narwhal