All about Debian OS!!

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Debian is one of the oldest Operating Systems that is based out of Linux Kernel. It is totally open source and I really enjoy exploring new things about it. My favorite fun part, apart from all the technical advantages it has, is the fact that the release names are based out of characters from toy story.

This article is about the release cycle of Debian OS and some handy tidbits related to the package manager of Debian — apt

Debian Releases:

Debian has three common releases in active maintenance all the time. Every release name is based out of toy story character.

• When a contributor releases a package, it first goes into the unstable release. It could also end up getting into an experimental branch, which is not exactly a release, but a repository where the packages can be tested if not selected to go into the unstable branch.
• The next stage is testing. The packages are automatically copied if there are no release-critical bugs and there are no dependency issues related to this package.
• From time to time Debian developers decide to release a new version of Debian, a new stable. Hence they freeze the current testing archive and also fix as many critical bugs as possible and then cut a release.

(Experimental-->)Unstable ---> Testing --> Stable…