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Debian operating system
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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
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If you're getting DHCP, it could also be the DHCP server that's giving you this address. In a standard house you'll not set a specific IP address, but your router will give you one, and normally your home computers will also use your router for DNS. So potentially your router is setting this, but that'd be a misconfigured router really, because your router shouldn't be telling your computer to look at local loopback for DNS requests.