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# What is Debian?
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Debian is an operating system which is composed primarily of free and open-source software, most of which is under the GNU General Public License, and developed by a group of individuals known as the Debian project. Debian is one of the most popular Linux distributions for personal computers and network servers, and has been used as a base for several other Linux distributions.
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> [wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian)
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%%LOGO%%
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# About this image
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The `debian:latest` tag will always point the latest stable release (which is, at the time of this writing, `debian:jessie`). Stable releases are also tagged with their version (ie, `debian:8` is an alias for `debian:jessie`, `debian:7` is an alias for `debian:wheezy`, etc).
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The rolling tags (`debian:stable`, `debian:testing`, etc) use the rolling suite names in their `/etc/apt/sources.list` file (ie, `deb
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http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing main`).
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## `/etc/apt/sources.list`
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The mirror of choice for these images is [httpredir.debian.org](http://httpredir.debian.org) so that it's as close to optimal as possible, regardless of location or connection.
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```console
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$ docker run debian:jessie cat /etc/apt/sources.list
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deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main
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deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main
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deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main
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```
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