Awards

Both our distribution and this website have won various awards from different organisations. Below is a list of the awards we know about. If you know of any others (or you are an organisation who has granted the website or distribution an award) then email webmaster@debian.org and we will put it up here.

Awards for the distribution

February 2018 Best Linux Distribution, 2018 Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards
February 2012 Server Distribution of the Year, 2011 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
August 2011 Best Linux distro of 2011 by TuxRadar
March 2011 Best Open Source Server Distribution and Outstanding Contribution to Open Source/Linux/Free Software at the Linux New Media Awards 2011
February 2011 Server Distribution of the Year, 2010 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
February 2010 Server Distribution of the Year, 2009 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
February 2009 Server Distribution of the Year, 2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
February 2008 Server Distribution of the Year, 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
April 2006 Recommended Project by Linux+
November 2003 Best Distribution in Linux New Media Award 2003. Appears in December 2003 issue (German) of Linux-Magazin.
October 2003 Best Enterprise Distribution in Linux Enterprise Reader's Choice 2003. (Results)
Best Distribution in Linux Journal 2003 Readers' Choice Awards.
January 2003 Best budget choice for Linux as server OS in Mikrodatorn 1/2003.
November 2002 First place in the Distributions category for the Linux New Media Award 2002. Appears in December 2002 issue (German) of Linux-Magazin. An English version is available as PDF file.
November 2000 VA Linux 2200 series with Debian won the Best Web Server award in the Linux Journal 2000 Editors' Choice Awards.
Readers' Choice award in the Infrastructure category at the Web Tools 2000 Conference and Exposition.
September 2000 Second place in the Server Distribution category for the Linux Magazine Editor's Choice Awards.
Winner of LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Show Favorites for Distribution/Client. Finalist for LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Show Favorites for Mail Server, Web Server, Distribution/Server.
Highly Commended Award for APCMAG Editor's Choice