Welcome to Debris Linux

Debris Linux gives you a simple, pleasing, but fully functional desktop with all applications necessary to get work done online and offline. It's intended to be fully usable as a LiveCD, but a lot of work also went into the installer which should make it easy for just about everyone to put it on the hard drive, either on its own partition or by using the complete disk. Apart from providing speed and efficiency, Debris Linux should be suitable for the "average" user who wants to just use a computer.

To keep things compact and clean, we only ship one application per task. The ISOs (for stable releases) are still smaller than 200MB (it should always fit on a mini CD-R). Due to its size and moderate hardware requirements, Debris Linux can also be run well on older hardware.

We also try to ship only Free (libre) applications in order to steer clear of any licensing issues - but we provide methods and means to get at the most commonly used "non-free" stuff.  The rule is: If there's a Free application (or piece of code) that does the job, we'll use that instead of the non-free alternative.

Debris Linux is based on Ubuntu and loosely follows their release cycle. This means Debris Linux is fully compatible with the Ubuntu release it is based on - you can use each and every Ubuntu package. We also maintain a small repository of customised applications and our own tools.

The project

The Debris Linux team consists of volunteers; Renegat3 is main (and at the moment sole) developer. We don't demand any money or any other kind of reward for our product, but if you like Debris Linux and appreciate our work, please consider donating.

 

 So, I lifted the email ban, since registered users were indeed effected by it. Now, the said email provider are rejected for registration only. Additionally, new registrations need to be approved first. This will slow down the registration process considerably, but it can't be helped. The zero-post-policy is still in place, though.

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In the last couple of days, we had a lot of forum registrations. Usually a good thing, unless there are suddenly a hundred more users, then an hour earlier. And true enough, they had signature-spams (links to dubious sites in the signature) and usually @gmail.com email address. As a result, I banned the usage of @gmail.com, @yahoo.com and @yahoo.uk.co email addresses for the time being. This should only effect new registrations. If not, please let me know.

Also, I deleted almost all user accounts with zero posts (about 400). If someone got deleted unjustly, please register again. Since there was no post, there was no harm done, too.

From now on, I will delete all accounts with zero posts after 30 days. Unfortunately, I have to assume they are "spam accounts". If not, well, if you don't want to communicate/participate/ask questions, you don't really need an account!

My apologies for any inconvenience.

Renegat3

After a long time of development, we finally present Debris Linux 2.0.

Unfortunately it took much more time than we hoped for. However, because of the large amount of testing and the fact that it is based on the very stable Ubuntu LTS version, Debris Linux 2.0. has proven to be a very stable system.

Debris Linux 2.0 is package compatible with Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) - you can use all packages for this release from the Ubuntu repositories, except for those depending on the Ubuntu kernel!

• General information about Debris Linux
• Notes on this release
  
• Download Debris Linux

We'd also like to thank everyone for your support and your loyalty throughout the long development period!

The Debris Linux Team

Debris Linux 2.0 Release Candidate 1 ready for download!