Editing Debian (section)

== Institutional users ==
Debian is used by several institutions, such as many universities, NGOs and other non-profit organizations (including [[Wikimedia Foundation]]),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Operating system upgrade policy - Wikitech |url=https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_upgrade_policy |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=wikitech.wikimedia.org |language=en}}</ref> and commercial companies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who's using Debian? |url=https://www.debian.org/users/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250406160450/https://www.debian.org/users/ |archive-date=2025-04-06 |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=www.debian.org |language=en}}</ref> It has even been used in space, in laptops on board the [[International Space Station]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Space Station adopts Debian Linux, drops Windows & Red Hat into airlock - Open Source Insider |url=https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/International-Space-Station-adopts-Debian-Linux-drops-Windows-Red-Hat-into-airlock |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=www.computerweekly.com}}</ref>

Debian has been very helpful to numerous government agencies in the public sector, such as in the city of Munich, which used a Debian-based distribution in its [[LiMux]] initiative for the government computer migration to Linux.<ref name="munich">{{Cite journal |last=Rettberg |first=T. |date=2008 |title=The LiMux project: A case study in migration to Free Software |journal=IEEE Software |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=44–49 |doi=10.1109/MS.2008.1}}</ref> Schools in [[Extremadura]] and [[Andalusia]] (Spain) also utilized Debian-based systems (gnuLinEx and Guadalinex, respectively) to develop digital skills and open-source computing in schools.<ref name="extremadura">{{Cite journal |last=Bretón |first=J. M. |last2=González |first2=J. J. |date=2006 |title=LINEX: The Extremadura Regional Government's GNU/Linux distribution |journal=Journal of Information Technology |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=195–204 |doi=10.1057/palgrave.jit.2000089}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=J.Pomeyrol |date=2018-08-17 |title=Guadalinex resurge como distro comunitaria "alejada de las garras de la Administración andaluza" - MuyLinux |url=https://www.muylinux.com/2018/08/17/guadalinex-comunitaria/ |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=www.muylinux.com |language=es}}</ref> There are many other cases of usage of Debian-based distributions in education, such as the deployment of Skolelinux/Debian Edu in Norwegian schools.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hargadon |first=Steve |title="Skolelinux" Report - Thin Client in 234 Norwegian Schools |url=https://www.stevehargadon.com/2006/04/skolelinux-report-thin-client-in-234.html |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=Steve Hargadon}}</ref> In addition, other public administrations use Linux systems indirectly based on Debian, such as [[French Gendarmerie]], which uses Ubuntu-derived [[GendBuntu]] distribution.<ref name="GendBuntu">{{Cite web |last=Bierhals |first=Gregor |title=Towards the freedom of the operating system: The French Gendarmerie goes for Ubuntu |url=https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/cc/c5/8d/IDABC.OSOR.casestudy.Gendarmerie.10.pdf |access-date=14 September 2015 |website=[[Open Source Observatory and Repository]]}}</ref>