Debian received a $300,000 donation from Handshake to improve infrastructure

On March 29, 2019, Debian announced on the official website that it had received a donation of $300,000 from Handshake. Handshake, an organization that develops an experimental peer-to-peer root domain name system, previously donated $1 million to the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

According to Debian, they will use the donation to continue Debian’s hardware replacement program, including updating servers and other hardware components. This series of updates makes the development of the project and the community infrastructure more stable and reliable.

A deep and sincere thank you to the Handshake Foundation for their support of the Debian Project. said Chris Lamb, Debian Project Leader. Contributions such as theirs make it possible for a large number of diverse contributors from all over the world to work together towards our mutual goal of developing a fully-free universal operating system.