Chapter 1. Welcome to Debian

Table of Contents

1.1. What is Debian?
1.2. What is GNU/Linux?
1.3. What is Debian GNU/Linux?
1.4. What is Debian GNU/Hurd?
1.5. What is the Debian Installer?
1.6. Getting Debian
1.7. Getting the Newest Version of This Document
1.8. Organization of This Document
1.9. Your Documentation Help is Welcome
1.10. About Copyrights and Software Licenses

This chapter provides an overview of the Debian Project and Debian GNU/Linux. If you already know about the Debian Project's history and the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, feel free to skip to the next chapter.