Debian - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DebianDebian (/ ˈ d ɛ b i ə n /), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a GNU/Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of Debian (0.01) was released on September 15, 1993, and its first stable version (1.1) was released on June 17, 1996.
Debian -- Debian Releases
https://www.debian.org/releasesDebian 11 ( bullseye) — current stable release Debian 10 ( buster) — current oldstable release Debian 9 ( stretch) — oldoldstable release, under LTS support Debian 8 ( jessie) — archived release, under extended LTS support Debian 7 ( wheezy) — obsolete stable release Debian 6.0 ( squeeze) — obsolete stable release
DebianReleases - Debian Wiki
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleasesIntroduction. Debian is under continual development. The latest release is Debian 11.2. It is also (currently) known as stable or by its codename "Bullseye".. Each version also corresponds to a set of named software repositories (at least one per CPU architecture).
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…