Debian -- About Debian
www.debian.org › intro › aboutDebian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software. However, work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, primarily for the Hurd. The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on top of a microkernel (such as Mach) to implement different features.
Debian -- About Debian
https://www.debian.org/intro/aboutDebian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software. However, work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, primarily for the Hurd.
HowToUpgradeKernel - Debian Wiki
https://wiki.debian.org/HowToUpgradeKernelHow To Upgrade Linux Kernel. The easiest way to do this is to install one of the supplied Linux kernel image packages on your system. They may be obtained using apt-get or aptitude if you want to use the command line, or Synaptic if you want to use a GUI. To install a Linux kernel image, you first have to decide which one you want to use.
Debian - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › DebianDebian is one of the oldest operating systems based on the Linux kernel. The project is coordinated over the Internet by a team of volunteers guided by the Debian Project Leader and three foundational documents: the Debian Social Contract, the Debian Constitution, and the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
Debian version history - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_historyDebian 1.0 was never released, as a vendor accidentally shipped a development release with that version number. The package management system dpkg and its front-end dselect were developed and implemented on Debian in a previous release. A transition from the a.out binary format to the ELFbinary format had already begun before the planned 1.0 release. The only supported architectur…
Managing Linux Kernel Upgrades In Debian - It's FOSS
https://itsfoss.com/kernel-upgrade-debian06.09.2017 · The Debian LTS kernel Initiative. Now the Linux kernel is an ever-moving target. Roughly every four months Linus releases a new kernel. Four months is a pretty short time to catch all the regressions and add new features etc. and hence . in 2011, a number of electronic makers came together and the LTSI initiative was born.. The reason I shared the above is, at …
Debian - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DebianDebian distribution codenames are based on the names of characters from the Toy Story films. Debian's unstable trunk is named after Sid, a character who regularly destroyed his toys. Debian was first announced on August 16, 1993, by Ian Murdock, who initially called the system "the Debian Linux Release". The word "Debian" was formed a…
KernelFAQ - Debian Wiki
wiki.debian.org › KernelFAQThe kernel configuration file of Debian Official kernel are available in /boot, named after the kernel release, like /boot/config-2.6.18-6-486, or /boot/config-$(uname -r). All the kernel configuration files, which were used to build the official Debian's binary kernel images from the linux-2.6 source package are available from http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/ .