Debian is a Linux distribution on which many other distributions (such as Ubuntu) are based. It uses GNOME as a desktop environment by default, but other desktops such as KDE, Xfce and E can also be used. For further information visit Wikipedia.

The current stable version is Debian Squeeze, and the unstable version (with more up-to-date package versions) is called Sid.

Software

Many packages related to OpenStreetMap can be found in the official Debian repositories. The DebianGis project provides a list of the Debian GIS Openstreetmap packages.

Links

• Official website
• DebianGis