Talk:Debian

The article claims that the "genie bottle" was originally part of the logo and fell out of use. That seems to me to be either misleading or simply incorrect. When the logo was originally designed, there were two versions, one for public use and one for official use. The public use one was the one with the bottle, and the official one was the swirl only. Shortly after that logo design won the competition, it was decided to swap the meaning of both logos (one of the reasons being that is was weird that the official only use logo was a subset of the public one). The official logo guidelines still show that the bottle version still exists and is reserved for official use.

So it's not that the bottle version "was effectively superseded", it simply was not the correct logo to use anymore. Joghurt42 (talk) 11:03, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

It seems Debian no longer officially goes by the GNU/Linux name, and has not for quite some time - https://www.debian.org/releases/ Lists 5.0 and before as being "Debian GNU/Linux", but later releases only refer to it as "Debian".

Other pages on debian.org have also dropped GNU completely, e.g. https://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian (no matches for GNU), compared to https://web.archive.org/web/20170609170537/http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian.

I therefore propose changing the lede to something along the lines of "Debian (/ˈdɛbiən/) is a free and open source Linux distribution, ...." Quizwammer (talk) 20:21, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

I have now made this change Quizwammer (talk) 19:49, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

The distribution (GNU/Linux variant) identifies itself as Debian GNU/Linux on the login prompt in the TTY. It is also important to remember Debian still has more than one kernel as an option. ~2026-12746-18 (talk) 19:41, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Why does the "OS Family" section say Unix-Like, shouldn't it say Linux? Kerunik1342 (talk) 01:07, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

It's done per the documentation at Template:Infobox_OS. - Aoidh (talk) 10:33, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Since there seems to be an edit war on the Debian architecture list, here is a quick clarification on the topic.

The following architectures are now release architectures, meaning that RC bugs affecting them will cause a package to be removed from testing:

• amd64
• arm64
• armhf
• i386 (Yes, i386 still a release architecture despite there being no kernel and d-i release. It's NOT a Debian Ports architecture)
• loong64 (LoongArch was recently added and is no longer maintained by the Debian Ports team)
• ppc64el
• riscv64
• s390x

The following architectures are part of Debian Ports:

• alpha
• hppa
• hurd-amd64
• hurd-i386
• m68k
• powerpc
• ppc64
• sh4
• sparc64
• x32

Itanium (ia64) was removed from Debian Ports in 2024 (see the news here: https://www.ports.debian.org), loong64 was moved to the list of release architectures in December 2025 (see: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/12/msg00004.html).

This means that the current architecture list is wrong as it marks loong64 and i386 as architectures part of Debian Ports which is NOT true, they're NOT on the Debian Ports FTP server (http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports). — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-44104-8 (talk) 18:00, 31 January 2026 (UTC)