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Introduction

What is Debian?

Debian is a free and open source operating system.

With no company behind it Debian is based on it's large community of Debian Developers and Maintainers.

Some companies let their employees actively contribute to Debian with the idea of building an operating system, that can be used for the company, and/or customers.

Debian has multiple derivatives, the most well known is Ubuntu, which builds most of it's core on Debian, but changes a lot in terms of Installation and Desktop experience.

Purpose of this training

This training is meant to give you an overview about how Debian packages and repositories work.

You should already have basic knowledge about:

  • Linux CLI (and Desktop)
  • Bash Scripting

Things you will learn:

  • TODO

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