11 Less Known Facts About The Debian Project The Debian project has approximately 100 million number of source lines. 1. Debian is the worldâs largest non-commercial Linux distribution and has led to many offshoot projects, the likes of which include Ubuntu, Xandros, Knoppix, etc. Debian, Debian project, Open source Distro, less known facts, unknown Debian facts, Xandros, Knoppix, Ubuntu,non-commercial Linux distribution, Linux distribution, Linux, linux operating system, Ian Murdock, Debra, 2. The name âDebianâ itself is derived from the name of the founder of the Debian project and his then girlfriend whose respective names were Ian Murdock and Debra. 3. The Debian project has a total number of source lines that stand at approximately 100 million, of which 68.5 per cent are actual code. This of course, discounts blank lines and comment lines. 4. The project itself is written in 70 different languages, of which the most popular language is C (32.1 per cent). 5. ON last count, the Debian project has had a total of 470,142 commits made by 4,752 contributors since 1996. Along the way, over 1.4 million files were altered. 6. Those that contribute to the Debian project are spread over 587 distinct geographic locations all over the world, with US having the largest number of contributors. 7. Jonas Smedegaard (aka âjonassâ) is the all time most prolific of these contributors. He has been an official Debian developer since 2001 and has committed 9,349 times, and changed 7 million lines of code over the decade or so. 8. The code names of Debian releases are the names of characters from the animation film Toy Story. The unstable, development distribution is called âsidâ, named after the emotionally unstable next-door neighbor kid who regularly destroyed toys. 9. According to the industry standard COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO), the cost estimate for developing the entire code base of the Debian project is 1.2 billion US dollars, or 22,984 person-yearsâ efforts. 10. NetworkConfiguration, DebianWheezy, NvidiaGraphicsDrivers, WiFi/HowToUse, and Skype are the five most popular pages of Debian Wiki (besides the front page). 11. Debian 1.0 was never released due to the mistake of a CD vendor accidentally shipping an (unbootable!) early development release of Debian as Debian 1.0. This premature Debian release was deprecated afterward. The very first (properly packaged) Debian release was Debian 1.1 Buzz. efytimes/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=113868
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