Debian
The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system is called Debian.
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KaOS
KaOS is a desktop Linux distribution that features the latest version of the Noctalia desktop environment, the Calligra office suite, and other popular software applications that use the Qt toolkit. It was inspired by Arch Linux, but the developers build their own packages which are available from in-house repositories.