See https://www.debian.org/ for information about Debian GNU/Linux. This FTP site is a repository for old debian releases. For new releases please see https://deb.debian.org/debian/. Releases are stored by their codenames under the dists/ directory. bullseye is Debian 11 buster is Debian 10 stretch is Debian 9 jessie is Debian 8.0 wheezy is Debian 7.0 squeeze is Debian 6.0 lenny is Debian 5.0 etch is Debian 4.0 sarge is Debian 3.1 woody is Debian 3.0 potato is Debian 2.2 slink is Debian 2.1 hamm is Debian 2.0 bo is Debian 1.3 rex is Debian 1.2 buzz is Debian 1.1 If you are using APT the relevent sources.list entries are like: deb https://archive.debian.org/debian/ $RELEASE main contrib for example: deb https://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib