Debian operating system

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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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bash script that displays debian releases (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by toni_bmw@lemmy.world to c/debian@lemmy.ml

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#!/bin/bash

#Requires: html2text, wget

wget -q -O - https://www.debian.org/releases/ | html2text > /tmp/debian.txt

cat <<EOF

$(grep '* Debian.*[Rr]elease' /tmp/debian.txt)

$(grep 'current testing' /tmp/debian.txt)

This system:

$(lsb_release -a)

EOF

rm -f /tmp/debian.txt

sleep 60

exit 0

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