<h1 id="project">Tails project</h1>

<h2 id="debian">Why is Tails based on Debian and not on another distribution?</h2>

See also the article [Why there are so many Debian derivatives](http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2011/09/why_there_are_so_many_debian_derivatives/) by Stefano Zacchiroli.

No, we don't sell preinstalled Tails devices.

Selling preinstalled devices would in fact be a pretty bad idea:

If burned on a DVD, then this DVD would be outdated on the next release. This means after 4 weeks at most.

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So, the information retrieved by such fingerprinting websites is not harmful for anonymity in itself, as long as it is the same for all users of *Tor Browser*.