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Welcome to the quick download site for installation and LiveCD images!

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There are multiple ways to get the various types of images Debian is providing. - The main goal of this site is providing easy to use download links for the - images that have users mostly downloaded from Debian. There is a big chance - you will find here your wanted image directly without further steps.

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We provide all kinds of installation images, supporting installation and use - on many types of system: laptops, desktops and servers.

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And we also have created so called live images that you can run Debian on your - computer directly for testing without having to install it first.

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-If any of the hardware in your system requires non-free firmware to be -loaded with the device driver, you can use one of the -unofficial images including these non-free firmwares. -

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Welcome to the download site for installation and LiveCD images!

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There are multiple ways to get the various types of images Debian is providing. + The main goal of this site is providing easy to use download links for the + images that have users mostly downloaded from Debian. There is a big chance + you will find here your wanted image directly without further steps.

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We provide all kinds of installation images, supporting installation and use + on many types of system: laptops, desktops and servers.

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And we also have created so called live images that you can run Debian on your + computer directly for testing without having to install it first.

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If you searching for other types of images and can not find them here by direct + links please read the information at the bottom of the download section.

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If you searching for other types of images and can not find them here by direct - links please read the information at the bottom of the download section.

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Additional Info

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Provided image types - official vs. non official images

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  • The Debian Developers are required to follow the rules of the + Debian Free Software + Guidelines (DFSG)!
    + This mean that all installation images, no matter on the supported + platform or architecture, need to be made and created only based on + free software that is based on the ground of the DFSG.
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  • Unfortunately quite a lot of manufactures of PC hardware (e.g. + CPUs, NICs or video cards) are requiring the usage of a firmware blobs + to make the hardware work as expected.
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  • Given such firmware files are pre-compiled binaries with no official + accessible source code makes them closed source (by the DFSG). + This also means that such files can't be part of any + official Debian installation image and are excluded.
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  • The Debian developers are aware that all official installation + images can cause problems while the installation process or will + mostly create an not fully working Debian installation if no further + steps and precautions are made.
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  • Because of this circumstance there are also images provided which + does include such required firmware files for getting fully functional + hardware. They are all have an additional suffix non-free + as they include non-free parts from a view of the DFSG. Because such + images violating the DFSG they can't be an official Debian image and + the Debian project is marking them as non official + images.
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  • Even if the images marked as non official you are not alone if you + want or need to use them! The Debian support channels will provide help + to you if required.
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  • New users to Debian should choose such an non-free image for better + first timer user experience!
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Summary:
+ If any of the hardware in your system requires non-free + firmware to be loaded with the device driver, you probably want to use + one of the unofficial images including these + non-free firmwares.

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Supported architectures and platforms

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  • Debian can be used on various platforms that are based on different + CPU architectures and we build images for almost all of them. The probably + most used platform in Debian today is named + amd64 (started in + 2000) and even hardware that was bought not recently will be build up + by this platform. So even if your are unsure about your local + machine you mostly can simply grab an image build for this platform.
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  • Another platform that might be interesting for you is called in Debian + i386. The importance of this platform has decreased rapidly over the + past years, some other distributions have dropped the support already. + In case you are required to use an image for that platform please use + one of the buttons for more downloads further down.
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  • Each release of Debian is supporting a lot of various other hardware + architectures than the Intel based. For the current Debian + release there are also images available for a list of the architectures + that Debian is calling than Release Critical platforms. The release + team is deciding which platform will be part of this list for a stable + release. A platform which is called release critical will get security + support for the whole live span of a release!
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  • + Debian is providing images not only for the release critical platforms, + all platforms are called ports within the + Debian universe.
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Summary:
+ If you need a image that is for another platform than + amd64 please use one of the buttons for more images. + For the Debian release the full supported + architectures/platforms are + i386, + amd64, + arm64, armel, armhf, + mips, mips64el, + mips64, + ppc64el and + 390x, + you will find various kind of images for these architectures.

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