debian.org
Debian
Who runs Debian, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Linux distribution alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Fedora Project
Measured from Debian’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Debian01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Debian
Debian debian.org
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
Wikidata: free operating system
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Debian tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Debian’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Debian
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Debian, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Fedora Linux | The Fedora Project
An innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers, built with love by you.
Very close - 02
Arch Linux
Linux distribution
Very close - 03
openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers
openSUSE makes open source Linux operating systems, available for free in several flavors.
Very close - 04
The enterprise Linux for open source innovation | Ubuntu
Ubuntu is the modern, enterprise Linux operating system for servers, desktop, cloud, and IoT. Supported for up to 15 years
Very close - 05
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Very close - 06
The CentOS Project
Linux distribution
Very close - 07
The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Very close - 08
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Very close - 09 Very close
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The NetBSD Project
Very close - 11
AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System
An Open Source, community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution.
Very close - 12
Manjaro – The Linux for People and Organizations
This page provides an overview of Manjaro Linux, an open source operating system designed for ease of use. Learn about its features, installation, and support options. Get the most out of Manjaro Linux with the latest news, downloads, and tips from our helpful community.
Very close - 13
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close - 14
Enter the void
Welcome to the Void
Very close - 15
Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux is an open enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux.
Very close - 16
Home - Linux Mint
Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.
Very close - 17
Xfce Desktop Environment
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
Very close - 18
desktop environment and graphical user interface
Very close - 19
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Very close - 20
Nix & NixOS | Reproducible builds and deployments
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Debian’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Debian uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Debian adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Debian’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=3u3n3jrPTlPrumIxQAl4r0utY6hrkj1_DSvdxjiTSP8
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- nginx · not on debian.org 6/20
- Bootstrap · not on debian.org 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on debian.org 5/20
- Apache HTTP Server 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on debian.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on debian.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on debian.org 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on debian.org 3/20
- Cloudflare · not on debian.org 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on debian.org 3/20
- Nuxt · not on debian.org 2/20
- Tailwind CSS · not on debian.org 2/20
- Vue.js · not on debian.org 2/20
- Matomo · not on debian.org 2/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on debian.org 2/20