let's not bore the viewer with talk about kernel only (this was a copy/paste from intro/about, it seems), tell them about GNU project and about the abundance of packages, too

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 <P><A href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</A> is a
 <A href="intro/free">free</A> operating system (OS) for your computer.
-An operating system is the set of basic programs
-and utilities that make your computer run. At the core of an operating
-system is the kernel. The kernel is the most fundamental program on the
-computer, does all the basic housekeeping and lets you start other programs.
-Debian is kernel independent.  It currently uses the 
-<A href="http://www.linux.com/">Linux</A> kernel but work is
-in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, using 
-<A href="http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html"> the Hurd</A>.
+An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make
+your computer run. Debian uses the <A HREF="http://www.linux.com/">Linux</A>
+kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools
+come from the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU project</A>; hence the name
+GNU/Linux.
+
+<p>Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with more than
+4250 <A HREF="distrib/packages">packages</A>, precompiled software bundled
+up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
 
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