Debian Partners

What is the Partners Program?

The Partners Program was created to recognize companies and organizations that provide ongoing assistance to Debian. Because of the substantial support provided by these partners, we have been able to expand and improve Debian. We would like to officially recognize their efforts, and continue to maintain a good working relationship.

How can my organization contribute to Debian?

For donations of money, equipment, or services, visit our donations page.

For more information on the Debian Partners Program, visit Partners Program.


Development Partners

Hewlett-Packard has provided several high-end HPPA, IA-64 and IA-32 servers and workstations to Debian, and HP employs several developers to work on Debian HPPA and IA-64 ports. For information about HP's involvement in the Linux Open Source community, see HP Linux.

HP is one of the largest computer companies in the world, and it provides a wide range of products and services, such as all kinds of PCs, calculators, printers, scanners, plotters, various storage products, network servers and equipment, software etc.


Sun Microsystems has provided several UltraSPARC machines to Debian as well as demonstration systems for use at trade shows. For information about Sun's involvement in the Linux community, see Linux at Sun.

Sun provides high-speed microprocessors, scalable systems, robust software, network storage, mission-critical support, and comprehensive professional services, in addition to platform-independent Java(TM) and Jini(TM) technologies. For more information, contact webmaster@sun.com.


trustsec pays two Debian developers to work on the S/390 port of Debian and packages mainly related to Java. They host the web portal for Debian on S/390 and zSeries. They've paid and worked on the free Debian CDs for LinuxTag 2001 in Stuttgart.

trustsec offers customer support, consulting and training for Debian on the Intel PC architecture (i386), PowerPC and IBM S/390 and is specialized on network security and software development with Java. Please e-mail info@trustsec.de for more information.


credativ GmbH has twelve Debian developers on their staff, which do Debian work as part of their jobs. They also regularly sponsor CDs and other stuff for LinuxTag and generally help Debian in Germany.

credativ is a vendor independent consulting and service company specialized in quality assurance in IT projects, systems management, and Open Source services. Together with our customers we implement custom-made open source solutions (preferably completely Free Software) that have high potential in cost reduction, migrate systems and offer specialized support for complete networks. For more information please visit http://www.credativ.de/.


Skolelinux is heavily involved in both the creation and testing of the new debian-installer and the localization of Debian.

Skolelinux is an effort to create a Custom Debian Distribution aimed at schools and universities. An easy 3-question installation results in a preconfigured system tailored for schools, requiring almost no Linux or networking knowledge. This includes 15 preconfigured services and a localized environment.


Genesi has provided many PowerPC based Open Desktop Workstations to Debian, and Genesi employs developers to work on the Debian PowerPC port. For information about Genesi's involvement in the Linux Open Source community, please see www.PPCZone.org.

Genesi is a leading provider of Freescale and IBM PowerPC based computing products. Genesi's PegasosPPC MicroATX computer is designed to bring PowerPC technology flexibility and efficiency to the desktop, low-end server and pervasive market segments at an affordable price. The Open Desktop Workstation ships with Debian pre-installed.


MGE UPS SYSTEMS has provided the UPS infrastructure to protect the Debian server hosting alioth, arch and svn, and employs a Debian developer to work on Debian UPS support through Network UPS Tools (NUT). For information about MGE involvement in the Linux community, see MGE Open Source site

MGE UPS SYSTEMS is a world leader in providing high quality power solutions that increase power availability and system uptime to PCs and enterprise-wide networks, mission -critical telecommunication systems, and industrial/manufacturing processes.


Simtec has provided several ARM machines which make up the bulk of the Debian ARM infrastructure. In addition Simtec employs several developers who contribute towards the Debian ARM port.

Simtec is a leading provider of ARM based computing products. We have a range of boards which serve a wide range of uses within the embedded market. We provide a complete range of products and solutions which can be tailored to suit the customers needs from off the shelf integrator solutions right through to fully custom designs. All of our products ship with open source tools and operating systems.


Service Partners

Brainfood (previously called Novare) provides several machines to Debian, as well as hosting and server administration services.

Brainfood is a technology solutions company whose goal is to work to produce an ideal result for a specific need, whether it's a website or an ongoing, distance-learning intranet application, or custom developed software.   For more information, contact debian-contact@brainfood.com.


Linux Central provides us with Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM sets for trade show type events. These CD's help to promote Debian by getting the system right in the hands of potential and current users.

Linux Central sells all the latest releases of Linux products such as commercial software, books, hardware, and versions of major Linux distributions. On Linux Central's site you can also find news and basic information about Linux, or sign up for a newsletter to stay updated on all newly released products or daily specials.   For more information, contact sales@linuxcentral.com.


Black Cat Networks support Debian (and SPI Inc) by providing domain registration facilities.

They are a UK based web hosting, domain registration and co-location company who use Debian extensively throughout their systems. For more information please contact info@blackcatnetworks.co.uk.


The Oregon State University Open Source Lab provides hosting and administration services to the Debian project.

The Open Source Lab is a focal point for open source development at Oregon State University and beyond. The OSL provides development, hosting and assorted other services to the Open Source community.


Telegraaf Media ICT BV is supporting the Debian community by donating hardware, rackspace and bandwidth for the Debian server hosting alioth, arch and svn.

Telegraaf Media ICT BV is running its internet infrastructure (appx. 200 Intel based servers) mainly based on Debian GNU/Linux servers; the sysadmins are highly motivated Debian users and some of them also Debian maintainers.

Telegraaf Media Group runs some of the most popular Dutch websites (http://www.telegraaf.nl, http://www.speurders.nl and http://www.dft.nl) as well as the two biggest newspapers in The Netherlands.


man-da.de GmbH is the backbone provider of the Metropolitan Area Network Darmstadt. It is supporting Debian by hosting several debian.org and debian.net servers as well as the buildd network for experimental and debconf.org machines.

man-da.de GmbH is operating MANDA, a wide area network in the South Hessen region connecting educational and research organisations to a high speed redundant network ring and providing internet access. The company is owned by TU Darmstadt and University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and in addition to operating MANDA it is also providing IT consulting and IT services to both universities.


Bytemark Hosting support us by providing hosting services and sponsorship for the Debian Conference.

They are a leading Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United Kingdom and provide scalable, powerful and affordable hosting with lots of geek friendly extras as standard. Debian GNU/Linux is deployed extensively within their network, and comes recommended as the Distribution of Choice to any new customer who's not 100% sure on what to pick.


1&1 supports us by providing two servers in their Karlsruhe high-performance datacenter.

1&1 is one of the biggest Domain Registrars and Web hosting companies worldwide, with offices in Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain and the USA. Most of the over 5 million websites managed by 1&1 are running on a Debian-based environment using more than 700 servers.