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MirOS was an operating system based on OpenBSD and synchronised with the ongoing development of its parent. The most important differences between OpenBSD and MirOS include a completely rewritten bootloader and boot manager, a slim base system without NIS, Kerberos, BIND and i18n, binary security updates for stable releases, and current versions of the GNU developer toolchain.
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2005-02-16 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - February 15th, 2005 |
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This week's issue of Debian Weekly News is out: "Welcome to this year's 7th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Legal professionals in Australia have developed a new judicial information system based on Free Software and Debian in particular. Chris Halls announced preliminary packages for OpenOffice.org 1.9.73 built with Sun's JDK." Other highlights: Debian-Installer featured in c't, confusing udev behaviour, and Branden's run for the DPL, together with the regular package and security updates. Read more in this week's issue of Debian Weekly News.
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The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system is called Debian. Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel. Linux is a completely free piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. Of course, the thing that people want is application software: programs to help them get what they want to do done, from editing documents to running a business to playing games to writing more software. Debian comes with over 50,000 packages (precompiled software that is bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine) - all of it free. It's a bit like a tower. At the base is the kernel. On top of that are all the basic tools. Next is all the software that you run on the computer. At the top of the tower is Debian -- carefully organizing and fitting everything so it all works together.
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2023-06-10 |
Distribution Release: Debian 12 |
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The Debian project has announced the release of Debian 12 "Bookworm", a new stable version which will receive five years of security updates. The new version shifts the way the project handles non-free firmware in an attempt to make Debian more compatible with a range of consumer hardware. "Bookworm will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and the Debian Long Term Support team. Following the 2022 General Resolution about non-free firmware, we have introduced a new archive area making it possible to separate non-free firmware from the other non-free packages: non-free-firmware. Most non-free firmware packages have been moved from non-free to non-free-firmware. This separation makes it possible to build a variety of official installation images. Debian 12 Bookworm ships with several desktop environments, such as: GNOME 43, KDE Plasma 5.27, LXDE 11, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, Xfce 4.18. This release contains over 11,089 new packages for a total count of 64,419 packages, while over 6,296 packages have been removed as obsolete." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): debian-12.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (3,748MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso (738MB, SHA512, signature, torrent). |
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2021-08-14 |
Distribution Release: Debian 11 |
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The Debian project has published a new version of the distribution's Linux-based operating system. Debian 11 (code name "Bullseye") includes over 11,000 additional packages and a number of interesting new features, including driverless document scanning, exFAT filesystem support, and a generic "open" command which can launch default applications from the command line. "The official SANE driverless backend is provided by sane-escl in libsane1. An independently developed driverless backend is sane-airscan. Both backends understand the eSCL protocol but sane-airscan can also use the WSD protocol. Users should consider having both backends on their systems. eSCL and WSD are network protocols. Consequently they will operate over a USB connection if the device is an IPP-over-USB device (see above). Note that libsane1 has ipp-usb as a recommended package. This leads to a suitable device being automatically set up to use a driverless backend driver when it is connected to a USB port. A new open command is available as a convenience alias to xdg-open (by default) or run-mailcap, managed by the update-alternatives(1) system. It is intended for interactive use at the command line, to open files with their default application, which can be a graphical program when available." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement and release notes. Download (pkglist): debian-11.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (3,764MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), debian-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso (377MB, SHA512, signature, torrent). |
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2019-07-07 |
Distribution Release: Debian 10 |
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The Debian project has announced the release of Debian 10 (code-named "buster"), the latest stable version from the popular community project and the world's largest Linux distribution whose beginnings date back to 1993: "After 25 months of development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 10, which will be supported for the next 5 years. This new release of Debian comes with a lot more software than its predecessor; the distribution includes over 13,370 new packages, for a total of over 57,703 packages. Most of the software in the distribution has been updated. Debian again ships with several desktop applications and environments. Among others it now includes GNOME 3.30, KDE Plasma 5.14, LXDE 10, LXQt 0.14, MATE 1.20 and Xfce 4.12. With buster, Debian brings a mandatory access control framework enabled by default. New installations of Debian buster will have AppArmor installed and enabled." See the release announcement and the detailed release notes for more information. As with the previous release, Debian 10 is available as a standard installation DVD set, as well as a separate set of live DVD images with popular desktop environments, including a newly added LXQt edition. Here are the download links to the amd64 installation DVD and the live DVD images (SHA512): debian-10.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (3,664MB, SHA512, torrent, pkglist), debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-cinnamon.iso (2,352MB, torrent), debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-gnome.iso (2,379MB, torrent), debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-kde.iso (2,576MB, torrent), debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-lxde.iso (2,241MB, torrent), debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-lxqt.iso (2,345MB, torrent), debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-mate.iso (2,331MB, torrent), debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-xfce.iso (2,217MB, torrent). |
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2017-06-18 |
Distribution Release: Debian 9 |
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The Debian project, which develops the world's largest Linux distribution, has announced the release of Debian 9, code name "Stretch". The usual long-development cycle and conservative, well-tested nature of the product is a consequence of the distribution's support for a number of processor architectures (i386, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, mips, mipsel, mips64el, ppc64el, s390x) and a wide range of deployment scenarios, including desktops (GNOME 3.22 as default, with KDE Plasma 5.8, LXDE, LXQt 0.11, MATE 1.16 and Xfce 4.12 also provided) and servers. Debian 9 comes with over 51,000 binary packages, a new record for a stable Debian release. "After 26 months of development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 9 (code name Stretch), which will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and of the Debian Long Term Support team." Read the release announcement and see the what's new section of the release notes for further information. Debian 9 is available in several variants, including a full DVD set and a separate set of live DVD images with popular desktop environments, among other options. Here is the download link to the amd64 installation DVD image: debian-9.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (3,628MB, SHA512, torrent, pkglist). The live images are also ready (SHA512): debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-cinnamon.iso (2,006MB, torrent), debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-gnome.iso (2,224MB, torrent), debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-kde.iso (2,466MB, torrent, debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-lxde.iso (1,872MB, torrent), debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-mate.iso (1,929MB, torrent), debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-xfce.iso (1,853MB, torrent). |
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2015-04-26 |
Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 |
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The Debian project has announced the release of Debian GNU/Linux 8.0, code name "Jessie". The new stable version is the first Debian release to use systemd as the default init software. It offers support for two new architectures, arm64 and ppc64el, while dropping support for the IA-64 and Sparc architectures. Debian Jessie ships with GNOME Shell 3.14 as the default desktop environment and a number of code hardening features have been added to the build process. "After almost 24 months of constant development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 8 (code name 'Jessie'), which will be supported for the next 5 years." Jessie can be downloaded in several editions, including a full DVD set, a CD image, a set of live DVD images with popular desktop environments, and a minimal "net-install" image. See the release announcement and release notes for more information. Download: debian-8.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (3,792MB, SHA512, torrent, pkglist). Quick links to the live DVD images (SHA512): debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-cinnamon-desktop.iso (1,088MB, torrent), debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso (1,315MB, torrent), debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-kde-desktop.iso (1,206MB, torrent, debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso (950MB, torrent), debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-mate-desktop.iso (961MB, torrent), debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-xfce-desktop.iso (942MB, torrent). |
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2013-05-05 |
Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 |
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Debian GNU/Linux 7.0, a new stable version of the world's largest Linux distribution, has been released: "After many months of constant development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 7.0. This new version of Debian includes various interesting features such as multiarch support, several specific tools to deploy private clouds, an improved installer, and a complete set of multimedia codecs and front-ends which remove the need for third-party repositories. Multiarch support, one of the main release goals for Wheezy, will allow Debian users to install packages from multiple architectures on the same machine. This means that you can now, for the first time, install both 32- and 64-bit software on the same machine and have all the relevant dependencies correctly resolved, automatically." Read the release announcement for basic information and check out the release notes for technical details. Download: debian-7.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (3,813MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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2011-02-06 |
Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 |
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Debian GNU/Linux 6.0, code name "Squeeze", has been released: "After 24 months of constant development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name 'Squeeze'). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a 'technology preview'. Debian 6.0 includes the KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, the GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments as well as all kinds of server applications. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB. Debian runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of nine architectures are supported by Debian GNU/Linux." Read the release announcement and release notes for details. A total of 693 ISO images have been prepared for this release; here are the quick links for the first of the eight installation DVD images for the i386 and amd64 architectures (installable live CD/DVD images are available here): debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso (4,475MB, SHA256, torrent), debian-6.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (4,446MB, SHA256, torrent).
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2009-02-15 |
Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 |
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Big day for the Debian fans - Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" has been released: "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (code-named 'Lenny') after 22 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments. This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.5.10, an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.22.2, the Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment, LXDE 0.3.2.1, the GNUstep desktop 7.3, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP 2.4.7...." See the release announcement and release notes for a detailed description of the release. As usual, a wide variety of installation media is available for free download from the project's mirror sites. For new installations, the "netinst" method of installing the distribution is probably the easiest; get the "netinst" images for i386 and x86_64 architectures from here: debian-500-i386-netinst.iso (150MB, MD5, torrent), debian-500-amd64-netinst.iso (131MB, MD5, torrent).
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2009-02-01 |
Development Release: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 RC2 |
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Otavio Salvador has announced the availability of the second release candidate of the Debian Installer for "Lenny", the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0. As usual, the installer comes with the complete set of Debian "Lenny" packages on CD, DVD and Blu-ray images. From the release announcement: "The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the second release candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux 'Lenny'. Improvements: updated Linux kernel (2.6.26-13) and external modules (2.6.26-5); available modules for PATA devices on CD-ROM images; improved brltty device support; support firmware loading from USB devices in SPARC; improved support for encrypted partitions in rescue mode; fixed multi-arch CD - it no longer boots directly to the amd64 installer; updated installation guide with a re-added Spanish translation...." The most common way to install Debian "Lenny" is by using the "netinst" CD images, which can be downloaded from here: debian-Lenny-DI-rc2-i386-netinst.iso (150MB, MD5), debian-Lenny-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso (131MB, MD5).
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