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<sect1 id="what-is-debian">
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<title>Hvad er Debian?</title>
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Debian er en frivillig organisation med det form� at udvikle frie
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programmer og fremme Free Software Foundations' idealer.
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Debianprojektet startede i 1993, hvor Ian Murdick udsendte en
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�en åben invitation for programudviklere til at bidrage til en
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komplet og sammenhængende distribution baseret på den
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relativt nye Linuxkerne. Denne relativt lille gruppe af dedikerede
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enthusiaster startede oprindeligt gruppen
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<ulink url="&url-fsf-intro;">Free Software Foundation</ulink>
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<ulink url="&url-gnu-intro;">GNU</ulink>-filosofien vokset
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gennem årene til en organisation på omkring
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&num-of-debian-developers; <firstterm>Debianudviklere</firstterm>.
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Debianudviklere er involverede i mange forskellige aktiviteter, herunder
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<ulink url="&url-debian-home;">Web</ulink> -
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og <ulink url="&url-debian-ftp;">FTP</ulink>-administration,
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grafisk design, ophavsretslig juridisk vurdering af program-licenser,
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udarbejdelse af dokumentation og --- naturligvis --- vedligeholdelsen
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For at beskrive vores filosofi og tiltrække udviklere, der tror på
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de principper, Debian står for, har Debianprojektet udgivet
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nogle dokumenter, der tydeliggør vore værdier og fungerer som
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retningslinjer for, hvad det vil sige at være Debianudvikler:
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<ulink url="&url-social-contract;">Debians Sociale Kontrakt</ulink> er
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a statement of Debian's commitments to the Free Software Community.
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Anyone who agrees to abide to the Social Contract may become a
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<ulink url="&url-new-maintainer;">maintainer</ulink>.
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Any maintainer can introduce new software into Debian — provided
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that the software meets our criteria for being free, and the package
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follows our quality standards.
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<ulink url="&url-dfsg;">Debian Free Software Guidelines</ulink> are a
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clear and concise statement of Debian's criteria for free software.
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The DFSG is a very influential document in the Free Software Movement,
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and was the foundation of the
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<ulink url="&url-osd;">The Open Source Definition</ulink>.
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<ulink url="&url-debian-policy;">Debian Policy Manual</ulink> is an
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extensive specification of the Debian Project's standards of quality.
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Debian developers are also involved in a number of other projects;
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some specific to Debian, others involving some or all of the Linux
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community. Some examples include:
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<ulink url="&url-lsb-org;">Linux Standard Base</ulink>
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(LSB) is a project aimed at standardizing the basic GNU/Linux system,
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which will enable third-party software and hardware developers to
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easily design programs and device drivers for Linux-in-general, rather
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than for a specific GNU/Linux distribution.
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<ulink url="&url-fhs-home;">Filesystem Hierarchy Standard</ulink>
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(FHS) is an effort to standardize the layout of the Linux
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file system. The FHS will allow software developers to concentrate
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their efforts on designing programs, without having to worry about how
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the package will be installed in different GNU/Linux distributions.
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<ulink url="&url-debian-jr;">Debian Jr.</ulink>
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er et internt projekt med det formål at sikre at Debian har noget at
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tilbyde vore yngste brugere.
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For mere generel information om Debian, henviser vi til
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<ulink url="&url-debian-faq;">Debians FAQ</ulink>.