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TrueOS has as its goals to be an easy-to-install-and-use desktop and server operating system, based on FreeBSD. To accomplish this, it provides a graphical installation to enable even UNIX novices to easily install and get it running. It pre-configures desktop environments, video, sound, and networking so that the desktop can be used immediately. A graphical software installation program makes installing pre-built software as easy as other popular operating systems.
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| 2023-06-10 |
NEW • 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 |
NEW • 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 |
NEW • 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 |
NEW • 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 |
NEW • 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 |
NEW • 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 |
NEW • 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 |
NEW • 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 |
NEW • 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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| 2008-11-13 |
NEW • Development Release: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 RC1 |
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Strictly speaking, this is a release candidate for the Debian installer only, but since the release includes a full set of Debian "Lenny" CD and DVD images, it is perfectly suitable for testing the entire distribution. From the announcement: "The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux 'Lenny'. Improvements in this release: improved support for live CD installation media; support for some NAS devices based on Marvell's ARM-compatible Orion chip; installer images for Netwinder have been added again; installer images for i386 Xen guests; support for hardware speech synthesis has been added; upgrade of packages early in pkgsel, for example to get available security updates for base system packages; support for loading firmware from (removable) media during the installation...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Quick download links to the i386 and amd64 "netinst" CD images: debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso (150MB, MD5), debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (132MB, MD5).
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| 2008-10-24 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r5 |
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Alexander Reichle-Schmehl has announced the availability of the fifth revision of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 "Etch", a security and critical bug-fix update of the project's current stable release: "The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (code name 'Etch'). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems. Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away 4.0 CDs or DVDs but only to update via an up-to-date Debian mirror after an installation, to cause any out of date packages to be updated. Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the Aptitude (or APT) package tool to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors." Read the full release announcement for a detailed list of changes and upgrade instructions.
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| 2008-08-27 |
NEW • Development Release: Debian Live 5.0 Beta 1 |
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Daniel Baumann has announced the availability of the first set of live CD images for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny", complete with a hard disk installer and available in three desktop variants (GNOME, KDE and Xfce): "The Debian Live team is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian Lenny's Live images. This is the first official release of Debian Live and the whole team has been working hard during the past 2.5 years to make Debian's own live systems become a reality. Main features: 100% Debian; Live Magic - a GUI front-end around the live-helper scripts, offering a subset of the features of live-helper in an easy-to-use graphical user interface; Live Installer - a special udeb for the Debian Installer that installs the system from the live image." Read the full release announcement for more details and known issues. Download (MD5): debian-live-lenny-i386-gnome-desktop.iso (733MB), debian-live-lenny-i386-kde-desktop.iso (702MB), debian-live-lenny-i386-xfce-desktop.iso (503MB). ISO images for the amd64 architecture are also available.
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| 2008-07-27 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 |
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The fourth update to Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 is available: "The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch). In addition to correcting several security problems and a few serious defects in the stable release, for the first time in Debian's history an update for a stable distribution also adds support for newer hardware by giving users the option to install newer drivers. Existing Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 installation CDs and DVDs can continue to be used to install this update. After installation, upgrading via an up-to-date Debian mirror will cause any out of date packages to be updated. However, users of the network-console installation method are strongly encouraged to update their media, see the "Debian Installer" portion of this announcement for more information. Those who install updates frequently from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update." Read the rest of the release announcement for a detailed list of all changes. As always, Debian stable revisions are available for download via Debian's Advanced Package Tool (APT); alternatively, full CD and DVD images will be provided within the next few days.
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| 2008-06-09 |
NEW • Development Release: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Beta 2 |
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Many readers have asked us to publish release announcements of the Debian installers for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny", especially since these releases come as full sets of installation CD and DVD images. So here you go: the second Debian Installer beta for "Lenny" is out: "The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the second beta release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny. Improvements in this release of the installer: the installer uses and installs the 2.6.24 kernel; support for the armel (Arm Little Endian) architecture, using the new 'Embedded ABI'; installer images for i386 and amd64 have a new boot menu; the graphical installer now has full support for encrypted partitioning...." Read the complete release announcement for further information. Debian "Lenny" installation images are available for download from the Debian-Installer home page; here are a few quick links to the first of the installation DVD images: debian-LennyBeta2-i386-DVD-1.iso (4,447MB, MD5, torrent), debian-LennyBeta2-amd64-DVD-1.iso (4,472MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2008-02-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r3 |
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Joey Schulze has announced the availability of the third update to Debian GNU/Linux 4.0: "The Debian project is pleased to announce the third update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems. The installer has been updated to use and support the updated kernels included in this release. This update also includes stability improvements and added support for SGI O2 machines with 300 MHz RM5200SC (Nevada) CPUs. Flashplugin-nonfree has been removed, as this is closed source and we don't get security support for it. For security reasons, we recommend to immediately remove any version of flashplugin-nonfree and any remaining files of the Adobe Flash Player. Tested updates will be made available via backports.org." Read the rest of the release announcement for a detailed list of all changes. As always, Debian stable revisions are available for download via Debian's Advanced Package Tool (APT); alternatively, full CD and DVD images will be provided within the next few days.
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| 2007-12-29 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r7 |
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Martin Schultze has announced the availability of the seventh revision of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sarge", the project's legacy (or "old stable") branch: "The Debian project is pleased to announce the seventh update of its old stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1. This is the first time we update the old stable distribution during the lifetime of the stable distribution. This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the 'oldstable' release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems. With this release the installation system for sarge gains full support for installing 'oldstable' from network mirrors. This includes base-config. The installer also uses and supports the updated kernels included in this revision." Read the complete release announcement for further information. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r7 is available as an update from the project's main FTP server and its mirrors.
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| 2007-12-27 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r2 |
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The Debian project has announced the availability of the second revision to Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 "Etch": "The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems. The installer has been updated to use and support the updated kernels included in this release. This change causes old 'netboot' and floppy images to stop working; updated versions are available from the regular locations. Other changes include stability improvements in specific situations, improved serial console support when configuring GRUB, and added support for SGI O2 machines with 300MHz RM5200SC (Nevada) CPUs (mips)." Here is the full release announcement. The updated release is available from these Debian mirrors - they can be applied with the usual Debian package management tools or downloaded in the form of full installation ISO images.
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| 2007-08-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r1 |
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The Debian project has announced the availability of the first revision of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, code name "Etch": "The Debian project has updated the stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (code name Etch). This update adds security updates to the stable release, together with a few corrections to serious problems. As always, the first point release also corrects a few issues that have been noticed too late in the release process to stop the release, but still should be fixed. This point release for Etch also includes an updated release of the installer, which includes the following changes: kernels used in the installer have been updated to ABI 2.6.18-5; updated mirror list; support added for certain USB CD drives that were not being detected; incorrect setup of GKSu fixed when user chooses to install with the root account disabled...." Read the full release announcement for more details. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r1 is available in the form of individual package updates from these FTP and HTTP mirrors.
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| 2007-04-08 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 |
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The long-awaited Debian "Etch" has arrived: "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, code-named 'etch'. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. It also features cryptographic software and compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.1 of the LSB. Using a fully integrated installation process, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 comes with out-of-the-box support for encrypted partitions." Read the rest of the release announcement and release notes for a more detailed overview of Debian Etch. A variety of CD, DVD, live and network installation images are available for download from these FTP/HTTP mirrors, as well as via BitTorrent; here are a couple of quick links to the installation DVD torrents for the i386 and x86_64 architectures: debian-40r0-i386-DVD-1.iso (4,481MB, MD5), debian-40r0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (4,481MB, MD5).
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| 2007-04-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r6 |
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Alexander Schmehl has announced the release of a new revision of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1: "The Debian project has updated the stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename 'Sarge'). This update mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems. In preparation for the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename 'Etch'), Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 will be moved to the 'oldstable' part of the archive. Users who would like to continue using Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 are advised to update their sources.list network sources to refer to 'sarge' instead of 'stable'. Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 but only updates some of the packages included." Read the full update announcement for more details. A list of mirrors carrying the new Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r6 tree is available here. In related news, Sam Hocevar has been elected as the new Debian Project Leader.
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| 2007-02-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r5 |
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The current stable version of Debian GNU/Linux has been updated to include all recent security and bug-fix patches: "The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename 'sarge'). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages. Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 but only updates some of the packages included in the stable release." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. As always, the new revision is available for download with apt-get from the project's main server or its mirrors around the world.
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| 2006-11-06 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r4 |
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Available since early last week, the fourth revision of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 has now been formally announced and released: "The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (code name 'sarge'). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems. No new installation images will be created. Users are advised to update their system against an official Debian mirror after a new installation and update the kernel instead. Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the apt package tool to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors." Please read the rest of the release announcement for further details and a complete list of security updates and bug fixes.
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| 2006-09-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r3 |
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Joey Schulze has announced the availability of a third revision of the stable Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, code name 'sarge': "The Debian project has updated the stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1. This update mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems." Besides a large number of security updates and bug-fixes to glibc, GRUB, Perl and other packages, the Debian installer and several base packages were also updated. For more information please see the official release announcement and changelog. As always, the Debian stable revisions are normally applied with the apt-get package management tool. The updated stable branch, labelled as 3.1r3, is available from the project's main server or various mirrors around the world.
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| 2006-04-21 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian From Scratch 0.99.0 |
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John Goerzen has announced a new release of Debian From Scratch, an unofficial Debian rescue CD that provides an easy way to build a complete Debian system directly from source code: "Debian From Scratch (DFS) is a single, full rescue CD capable of working with all major files systems, LVM, software RAID, and even compiling a new kernel. The DFS ISO images also contain a small Debian mirror subset that lets you use cdebootstrap, along with the other utilities on the CD, to perform a manual, 'Gentoo-like' installation. It also serves as an excellent rescue CD, with a full compliment of files system tools, backup and restore software, and a development environment complete enough to build your own kernels." More information can be found in the release announcement and on the project's features page. Download: dfs-0.99.0_i386.iso (614MB, MD5).
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| 2006-04-19 |
NEW • Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Updated (r2) |
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Martin Schulze has announced the release of a second revision of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "sarge": "This is the second update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename 'sarge') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with some corrections to serious problems. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update. Please note that this update does not produce a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 but only adds a few updated packages to it." Read the rest of the release announcement for a complete list of changes. The updated release is available from ftp.debian.org and many Debian mirrors around the world.
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| 2005-12-20 |
NEW • Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Updated (r1) |
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The first security and critical bug-fix update to Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "sarge" has been released: "This is the first update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename 'sarge') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with some corrections to serious problems. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update. Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the 'apt' package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors." As usual, this Debian update brings no major package upgrades, but it does incorporate security fixes into existing packages. See the release announcement for a detailed list of changes. The updated release is available from the project's main server and many mirrors.
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| 2005-09-29 |
NEW • Review: Installing Debian |
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Installing Debian is an excellent walkthrough (with screenshots) of the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "sarge" installation process, written with Linux beginners in mind: "While Debian has a great reputation for day-to-day use, it has a poor (and not entirely unmerited) reputation for ease of installation. However, with the Debian 3.1 release, code-named Sarge, the developers have taken major steps to improve the installation experience, so don't be afraid. Perhaps the best advice I can give concerning Debian installation is to not expect to always get it right the first time. If you're ready to start over and experiment, you'll soon become happy with the installation process." The 4-page story by LinuxDevCenter starts here.
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| 2005-06-06 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 |
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The long wait is over: "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 3.1 codenamed 'sarge' after nearly three years of constant development. With the development of the new debian-installer, this release features a new, modular and sophisticated installation routine with integrated hardware detection and unattended installation capabilities. The installation is available in about thirty languages and includes configuration of the X server for many graphic cards. This release includes a number of up-to-date large software packages, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.3 (KDE), the GNOME desktop environment 2.8...." Find out more in the release announcement and release notes. The biggest distribution release ever, Debian 3.1 comes on no fewer than 29 CDs (binary + source); these can be downloaded from one of the Debian mirrors. Quick links to the 2 binary DVD images for i386 (MD5): debian-31r0-i386-binary-1.iso (4,470MB) and debian-31r0-i386-binary-2.iso (4,224MB). Champagne anyone?
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| 2005-06-02 |
NEW • Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 updated (r6) |
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A new revision of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "Woody" is now available: "This is the sixth and final update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (codename 'woody') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update. Please note that this update does not produce a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 but only adds a few updated packages to it. Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the 'apt' package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors." Read the release announcement for a complete list of changes. The list of Debian FTP and HTTP mirrors can be found on this page.
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| 2005-04-17 |
NEW • Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Updated (r5) |
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The 5th revision of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 has been released: "This is the fifth update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (codename 'woody') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update. Please note that this update does not produce a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 but only adds a few updated packages to it. There is no need to throw away 3.0 CDs but only to update against ftp.debian.org after an installation, in order to incorporate those late changes. Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the 'apt' package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list of mirrors is available at: http://www.debian.org/mirror/list." Read the announcement for further details.
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| 2005-03-01 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - March 1st, 2005 |
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The latest issue of Debian Weekly News is out: "Welcome to this year's 9th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Harald Welte reported a 2.1 M pps (packets per second) UDP packet forwarding rate over four gigabit ethernet ports, which is a new record for Linux. After OASIS, of which Debian is a member, has accepted a patent policy that has bad consequences on implementation of the standards, John Goerzen called for support for an open letter." Other highlights: Debian release update, report from LinuxWorld, common release questions, AMD64 port status update, and the usual security updates. Read more in this week's issue of Debian Weekly News.
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| 2005-02-22 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - February 22nd, 2005 |
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A new issue of Debian Weekly News is out: "Welcome to this year's 8th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Manoj Srivastava announced that only one week is left for nominations for the upcoming project leader elections. In order to achieve international standards recognition, the LSB has been submitted to the ISO/IEEE." Highlights: broken dependencies in unstable, archive verification for Sarge, dropping architectures, new MPlayer for Debian, potential license problem with PHP, and the usual package and security updates. Read the latest issue of Debian Weekly News on this page.
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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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| 2005-02-10 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - February 9th, 2005 |
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A new issue of Debian Weekly News is out: "Welcome to this year's 6th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Andreas Barth told us privately that the mipsel architecture is back in the list of supported architectures for testing. It's been reported that Bdale Garbee's young daughter Elizabeth, who has been a Debian user since she was nine, will deliver a talk about extending Tuxracer at the upcoming Linux conference Australia." Other highlights: Debian on the Mac mini, becoming a Debian developer, software vendors supporting Debian, Debian Project Leader elections, and other topics. Read the latest issue of Debian Weekly News here.
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| 2005-02-01 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - February 1st, 2005 |
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A new issue of Debian Weekly News is out: "Welcome to this year's 5th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Andreas Schuldei announced that the registration for this year's Debian conference has been opened. Og Maciel installed Debian for the first time and thought that the expert mode was appropriate, giving him the opportunity to answer all 27 questions of which only a fraction would be displayed during a normal installation." Also covered: dealing with missing dependencies, MySQL related packages transition, Woody to Sarge upgrade, temporary exclusion of mipsel architecture, and other topics. The latest issue of Debian Weekly News is available here.
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| 2005-01-26 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - January 25th, 2005 |
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A new issue of Debian Weekly News is out: "Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Marc Haber announced experimental packages of Exim4 linked against db4.2 for later inclusion in to sarge/sid. OSNews has a guideline on using the new debian-installer to install Debian by Luis Lima." Also covered is the Sarge release progress: "Steve Langasek sent in an update on the release progress for Debian 3.1. He reported that KDE 3.3 has been added to sarge and a porter upload for perl had taken place, which dropped the release critical bug count about 60 bugs. He also stated that progress in testing-proposed updates and testing-security has been made but is still waiting for infrastructure." Read the latest issue of Debian Weekly News here.
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| 2005-01-18 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - January 18th, 2005 |
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A new issue of Debian Weekly News is out: "Welcome to this year's 3rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Roger So sent a reminder for the Call for Papers for the Asia Debian Mini-Conf taking place at the end of February in Beijing, China. Jeroen van Wolffelaar compiled a list of packages in contrib which should be forced into the testing stage of contrib. Ankit Malik listed ten ways to pay back to the Free Software community." Also in this issue: Development on dpkg, Keeping old library versions intact, Disabling daemon services, Debian from scratch and other topics. Read the latest issue of Debian Weekly News here.
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| 2005-01-11 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - January 11th, 2005 |
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A new issue of Debian Weekly News is out: "Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Knowing KNOPPIX is a beginner-friendly book to help new users with the KNOPPIX live CD. Bruno Torres conducted an interview with the Debian project leader Martin Michlmayr." Also in this issue: KDE 3.3 accepted into Testing; supporting free Java in Debian; rudeness in changelog files; Sarge security updates propagation and other topics. Read the latest issue of Debian Weekly News here.
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| 2005-01-04 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - January 4th, 2005 |
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A new issue of Debian Weekly News is out: "Welcome to this year's 1st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Martin Michlmayr announced that Jörg Jaspert has been appointed as an additional Debian account manager. The Debian project announced another update of their stable release. Joey Hess published a list of security problems fixed in unstable but pending in sarge." Also covered: new arch and subversion server, Mozilla trademark restrictions, origin of the Debian swirl logo; an upcoming bug squashing party and the usual list of security updates. This issue of Debian Weekly News is available here. On a related note, NewsForge has published an interview with Debian Project Leader Martin Michlmayr.
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| 2005-01-01 |
NEW • Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Updated (r4) |
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The 4th revision of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 has been released: "This is the fourth update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (codename 'woody') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update. Please note that this update does not produce a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 but only adds a few updated packages to it. There is no need to throw away 3.0 CDs but only to update against ftp.debian.org after an installation, in order to incorporate those late changes. Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the 'apt' package tool to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list of mirrors is available here." Read the announcement for further details.
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| 2004-12-29 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - December 28th, 2004 |
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This year's final issue of Debian Weekly News has been published: "Welcome to this year's 51st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Piotr Roszatycki reported that he has created preliminary packages for PHP5 already. We would like to thank all contributors and translators of this online resource who have helped provide high quality information to our readers. We are seeking more contributions in order to be able to maintain DWN in 2005 as well." Other topics of interest include a request for translating the Sarge release notes and an upcoming stable update (3.0r4) expected before New Year's eve. Read more....
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| 2004-12-21 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - December 21st, 2004 |
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A new issue of Debian Weekly News is out: "Welcome to this year's 50th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. The Oxford University's computer centre will complete its move to PostgreSQL running on Debian as the back-end database over the next year. The next stable update is being prepared and expected before New Year's eve. For those of you who celebrate Christmas we wish you a Merry Christmas." Also in this issue: Sarge release progress update, status of the AMD64 port, and the usually list of security updates and new packages. Read the latest issue of Debian Weekly News here.
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| 2004-12-14 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - December 14th, 2004 |
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A new issue of Debian Weekly News is out: "Welcome to this year's 49th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Bruce Byfield released a short introduction into apt-get on NewsForge. Again, developers were advised to close bugs automatically with a changelog entry only in connection with a proper description. Jason Boxman wrote a guideline for using Exim 4 and Courier IMAP on a Debian system." Other topics covered include recent Debian-related articles in the media and the transition of GNOME 2.8 into Sarge. Read more in this week's issue of Debian Weekly News.
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| 2004-12-10 |
NEW • Debian Articles Round-Up |
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Several new Debian-related articles have been published over the last few days: Debian on AMD64 by LWN: "Although still labelled as beta, Debian's AMD64 port has so far proved to be a trouble-free, high-quality distribution that is certainly ready for deployment on high-end developer workstations." An apt-get primer by NewsForge: "If any single program defines the Debian Linux project, that program is apt-get." Debian Women: Geek feminists in action by NewsForge: "Debian Women began after Clark and Amaya Rodrigo, two of the few female Debian package maintainers, began privately discussing the lack of women in Debian last spring." A constructive critique of Debian Linux by Desktop Linux: "Overall, I consider Debian to be a competent, robust distribution -- having few flaws as an operating system, but possessing some critical ones that have led to the unfortunate perception of it being an elitist distribution." Why Debian needs to release by Planet Debian: "It is necessary that Debian itself releases. That some spin-offs (or subprojects, or however you want to call them) like Ubuntu release is not enough. No, Debian itself need to release. We need to do that for the sake of our users and for our own sake." Happy reading!
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| 2004-12-07 |
NEW • Debian Weekly News - December 7th, 2004 |
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A new issue of Debian Weekly News is out: "Welcome to this year's 48th issue of Debian Weekly News, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Frank Ronneburg has updated his book about Debian to cover the upcoming release of Sarge and will present it on December 14th in Berlin, Germany. Europcar has switched 1,500 computers in branch offices to Debian based thin clients, and is now moving 3,500 more machines in headquarters to GNU/Linux." Also in this issue - further disscussions about "Hot Babe", the status of Debian Sarge and finding a better release process. Read more in this week's issue of Debian Weekly News.
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| 2004-10-26 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r3 |
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A new revision of the stable branch of Debian GNU/Linux ("woody") is now available: "This is the third update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (codename 'woody') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update. Please note that this update does not produce a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 but only adds a few updated packages to it. There is no need to throw away 3.0 CDs but only to update against ftp.debian.org after an installation, in order to incorporate those late changes." The announcement, changelog, detailed list of updates. Existing Debian "woody" installations can be updated with "apt-get update" from the main server or one of the many mirrors.
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| 2004-03-19 |
NEW • Summary of Recent Articles on Debian |
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The release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Sarge is getting closer, which is echoed by an increasing number of articles devoted to the largest non-commercial distribution. The third beta of the much improved Debian installer is now out and ready for testing; see this usability review for a user's impressions and screenshots. Sarge will be a huge release, probably the largest Linux distribution ever created, as it will come on 13 binary CDs (and as many source CDs). While kernel 2.6 and KDE 3.2 are already included in Sarge, how about GNOME 2.6, asks Debian Planet. Finally, if you are new to Debian and confused about the terminology, then this article at linmagau.org does a good job explaining the differences between "Potato", "Sid" and other Debian peculiarities. Happy reading!
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| 2004-03-01 |
NEW • Why Linux? Why Debian? |
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This is an interesting talk delivered recently by the Debian Project Secretary Manoj Srivastava, listing the advantages of Debian and comparing it with other distributions and operating systems: "Upgrades have been said to be the killer advantage for Debian. More than most other OSs, the network is the distribution and upgrade mechanism for Debian. Policy, the thought that has gone into the maintainer scripts, and the ways in which they can be called, the full topographical sorting over the dependency web done by apt and friends, all work together to ensure that upgrades in place work smoothly (I've never had to reinstall my machines, though some have been upgraded in place for over 5 years)." The full story.
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| 2003-11-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 |
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The second revision of Debian Woody has been officially released: "This is the second update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (codename 'woody') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections of serious bugs. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update. Please note that this update does not produce a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 but only adds a few updated packages to it. There is no need to throw away 3.0 CDs but only to update against ftp.debian.org after an installation, in order to incorporate those late changes. Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the 'apt' package tool to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors." See the the official announcement for a complete list of changes.
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| 2003-11-21 |
NEW • Some Debian Machines Compromised |
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A bad news from the Debian project: "This is a very unfortunate incident to report about. Some Debian servers were found to have been compromised in the last 24 hours. The archive is not affected by this compromise! In particular the following machines have been affected: master (Bug Tracking System), murphy (mailing lists), gluck (web, cvs), klecker (security, non-us, web search, www-master). Some of these services are currently not available as the machines undergo close inspection. Some services have been moved to other machines (www.debian.org for example). The security archive will be verified from trusted sources before it will become available again. Please note that we have recently prepared a new point release for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody), release 3.0r2. This update has now been checked and it is not affected by the compromise." The full announcement.
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| 2003-09-03 |
NEW • Debian GNU/Linux - Not Just Another Pretty Face (Part I) |
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Debian is not quite like any other distro out there. If bigger is better, then Debian wins hands down. Aside from having the largest collection of free software packages, Debian also runs on 11 platforms. But there is more to Debian than just size. Almost uniquely among distros, Debian is a non-commercial development project run by volunteers spread around the globe. That the efforts of all these people manage to come together to produce a well-tuned distro (rather than breaking down into sheer chaos) is in itself quite an accomplishment. Travel writer and recent Debian convert Robert Storey tackles the whole installation procedure head on and gives his report...
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| 2003-08-20 |
NEW • Stable Debian Sarge in December? |
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It seems that Debian Sarge might be declared stable as early as in December this year - that's if all goes according to this plan by the Debian Release Manager Anthony Towns: "So, it's time we start doing more than think about the next release. Since I'm all for aggressive goals, let's aim for sometime in December -- how about 2003-12-01 00:00:00 UTC? Obviously this is aggressive, but I think it's entirely achievable. Exactly how we achieve it may be a little bit unclear, but hopefully the following will address some of that. To setup the context, we'll begin by discussing some of our longer term goals wrt releases, and the problems we're having with those." It's a long message, but it is a very good read - a must read for all Debian users and fans.
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| 2003-08-16 |
NEW • Happy Birthday, Debian! |
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"Fellow Linuxers, this is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release. This is a release that I have put together basically from scratch; in other words, I didn't simply make some changes to SLS and call it a new release. I was inspired to put together this release after running SLS and generally being dissatisfied with much of it, and after much altering of SLS I decided that it would be easier to start from scratch." Read the rest of the announcement, as published exactly 10 years ago by Ian Murdock. A few more interesting links to visit: about the history of Debian, why Debian 1.0 never was, a long list of birthday parties you can join today and a LinuxPlanet editorial entitled Debian: A Brief Retrospective by Ian Murdock. Happy birthday, Debian!
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| 2003-08-12 |
NEW • Debian Celebrates its 10th Birthday |
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"On August 16th, the Debian Project will celebrate its 10th birthday with several parties around the globe. The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993. At that time, the whole concept of a 'distribution' of GNU/Linux was new. Ian intended Debian to be a distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU. The creation of Debian was sponsored by the FSF's GNU project for one year. The Debian Project is celebrating its birthday at various places around the globe, since a single large party doesn't seem appropriate for a project which is spread worldwide. Some parties are simply a social get-together at a restaurant, while others are organised for larger audience." Read the announcement and join the festivities at a venue near you!
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| 2003-06-29 |
NEW • Getting to Know Debian |
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SitePoint has published an article introducing Debian GNU/Linux to new users: "This article has taken a brief look at the various issues and processes involved in installing the Debian distribution. As I said at the start, Debian is by no means a beginners' distribution. It involves a number of more complex steps to really get the package running, although it ultimately benefits from increased flexibility. This short article alone may not be enough to guide you fully through the process of installing Debian, though it has covered the major areas you'll need to be aware of." An excellent read for all who think about installing and configuring Debian.
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| 2003-02-19 |
NEW • A User Review of Debian GNU/Linux |
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Mention the word "Debian" in a group of Linux users and emotions are immediately stirred up. One of the largest volunteer cooperative projects in software history continues to attract attention of media, selfless effort of some of the world's best software developers and endless end user debates. No matter what your Debian feelings and experiences are like, there is no doubt that the Debian project has made an enormous impact on the history of modern software development. Alexander Antoniades looks at the Debian's latest stable version 3.0r1 and describes his own observations in this user review for DistroWatch.
A User Review of Debian GNU/Linux...
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| 2003-01-08 |
NEW • Interview with Martin Schulze: Living up to the Linux Name |
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The Melbourne daily The Age has published an interview with Martin Schulze, from the Debian press team, about the distribution, the motivation behind it and where he sees it going: "Question: What future do you see for Debian? Answer: The project will grow, the number of packages will increase, the number of active developers will increase, the number of supported architectures will also increase and key tasks like the buildd network and debian-installer will become even more important and complex. While some commercial vendors suffer from a bad market situation, Debian is unaffected by this. Even if commercial vendors shut shop, free distributions created by volunteers will continue to exist, especially if they have well-documented and clear rules and an existing and functioning framework." Read the rest of this interesting interview.
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| 2002-12-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 |
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Woody's first revision - Debian 3.0r1 is out. The revisions of Debian's stable branches are released to incorporate all security updates and critical bug fixes since the last stable release and this one is no exception. The following major packages were affected: the Linux Kernel (the default Kernel upgraded to 2.2.22), apache, ethereal, fetchmail, gaim, glibc, kdelibs, php, postfix, python, samba, snort and xinetd, among many others; see the complete ChangeLog for details. More information about Debian 3.0r1 can be found on this page maintained by the release manager of the Debian's stable branch. As usual, the ISO images will take a few more days to appear, but you can start upgrading your Woody installation straight away.
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| 2002-10-27 |
NEW • The Very Verbose Debian 3.0 Installation Walkthrough |
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A long story with a long title, published by OSNews: "I thought this article may be useful to those who would like to try Debian, but are a little intimidated by its installer. Several of the posts to the above mentioned story indicated that Debian's installer was a huge hurtle for many people, who would otherwise like to try it. I have found Debian to be the most useful flavor of Linux, so I wanted to write an easy, though somewhat long, walkthrough in the hopes of allowing a wider audience to experience first hand this stable and unique Linux distribution." If you've ever tried to install Debian and gave up for whatever reason, this perfect step-by-step guide is here to help. On a related note, another new Debian-related article called Debian/GNU Linux: The Past, the Present and the Future has been published by TelemetryBox. It's a talk given last week at the Free Software Symposium in Tokyo.
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| 2002-10-21 |
NEW • Review: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Woody |
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LinuxWatch has published a review of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Woody: "Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is a good choice for technical users and/or those who have plenty of Linux experience. Those who have a lot of spare time and patience might also take a shot at 'Woody'. We wouldn't recommend those who use dial-up for Internet access use Debian due to it's high use of the net during installation. We would not recommend Debian to a new user, instead we would point them more in the direction of Red Hat or Lycoris. We would recommend Debian for either experienced users workstations or in a server environment." The full review.
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| 2002-10-20 |
NEW • An Unbiased Review of Debian 3.0 |
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Debian GNU/Linux does not attract reviewers' attention nearly as much as other, less-widely used distributions. So enjoy this rare and critical user review of Debian Woody, published by Debian Planet: "The new Debian needs to blow people away. It needs to be Granny-proof. It needs an installer that people can bluff their way through, with an attractive, well configured desktop on the other side. Debian maintainers should check out the competition now and again, to see where they can improve. Because if they don't, Debian will lose developers, and become less and less of a force in the Linux world." Certainly a very interesting opinion including suggestions for improvements; read it all here, then join in the discussion at Debian Planet.
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| 2002-09-24 |
NEW • Is Debian Losing Mindshare? |
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Three months after the release of Debian 3.0 Woody we have yet to see a single review of it in any of the mainstream Linux media. DebianPlanet is asking: Is Debian Losing Mindshare? "So why hasn't Woody received more attention from Linux websites? One likely possibility is that Debian is losing 'mindshare'. While Linux websites are not a perfect mirror of the true interest in and usage of a distribution, they do reflect some level of popularity and demand. These websites respond to the interests of readers, and it seems that Linux website readers have not been clamoring for reviews of Woody." Join in the discussion. The only review of Woody I have been able to find is this one by frlinux.net. It is in French and it includes a handful of screenshots.
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| 2002-07-19 |
NEW • And you thought it would never happen... |
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It's not often that we can bring you news about a brand new Debian stable release, so enjoy this rare occasion - Debian 3.0 (woody) is out: "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the release of Debian GNU/Linux version 3.0. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system, which now supports a total of eleven processor architectures, includes KDE and GNOME desktop environments, features cryptographic software, is compatible with the FHS v2.2 and supports software developed for the LSB." This is the release announcement with a lot more detail. Other notable links: release notes, installation manual, boot floppies and, most importantly, the Woody MiniCD images for net installation: woody-i386-1.iso (186MB). The full ISO image set will be out in a few days, in the meantime, visit our Debian and Major Distributions pages for up-to-date information. Now let me go and open that bottle of Champaigne I have been keeping for the occasion...
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| 2002-07-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian 2.2r7 |
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Potato's 7th revision has appeared on the Debian's FTP server. It's kind of hard to get excited about the release which is nothing more than a security and critical bug fix update. This word from the potato's release manager: "This may also be the last version of the 2.2 series, depending on how well the woody release is making progress. There is, however, still a possibility another update (r8, to be scheduled at the beginning of August) has to be released before Debian 3.0." An official announcement should be out shortly (keep an eye on the Latest News page), but I believe that those of you still running potato know the apt-get drill pretty well by now...
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| 2002-05-28 |
NEW • The Importance of Being Debian |
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The Importance of Being Debian (or why you should care about Linux's great noncommercial distribution): "There needed to be a distribution that this emerging community of Linux users could trust. And so, fusing his first name with that of his girlfriend Debra, Murdock founded what would become Linux's most popular non-commercial distribution -- Debian GNU/Linux." A nice article from Linux Magazine about the past, present and future of Debian GNU/Linux.
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| 2002-05-15 |
NEW • Distribution News: Debian |
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Waiting for stable Woody continues. It is not much of a news, I know, but maybe you can pass these frustrating times by reading some of the interesting articles I have found around the Internet recently. The latest Debian Weekly News is out, trying hard to avoid the Woody release date issue. Debian Planet presents an interesting question: "The Release Manager has stated that the release of Woody is now for the most part delayed by needed improvements to the security update system. If so, how can Woody release with eight Release Critical bugs in Base and Standard?"" The same source generated a huge feedback when trying to find out why KDE3 has yet to appear in any of the Debian branches - read all about it in All your kdebase3 belong to every dist but us. Finally, Linuxguru has published a nice article about the Debian packaging system: "Debian contains one of the most advanced and useful packaging systems. Not only is it an easy process to build or install a Debian package, excellent documentation is provided to help even a young teen learn how to build one." Read it here.
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| 2002-04-30 |
NEW • Woody Release Status |
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Debian 3.0 (Woody) release status. "So, it's April 30th (for most of the planet, anyway), which probably means folks are beginning to get mildly curious about whether Woody will actually be ready for release tomorrow. The answer is a definite 'kind-of'. Which is to say, 'no'." Don't despair just yet - Woody is still coming as "...the only outstanding changes that need to be made are the standard security fixes." The release manager then goes on saying that "...some moderately significant changes to the existing autobuilder system are being made, which should become active over the next week or so." These are just some of the more important excerpts - the full story from the debian-devel-announce mailing list is available here.
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| 2002-04-07 |
NEW • Debian 3.0 Getting Ready |
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It has been widely reported on many news sites and it is only appropriate to mention it here too: "I'm becoming increasingly confident in woody's release readiness. So, to go out on a limb: Debian 3.0 (code named woody) will release on May 1st, 2002. Actually, as always, it'll release when it's ready: if we find that the software doesn't meet our expectations on April 30th, you'll find me on the ground writhing in pain with leaves, bark and wood all over the place." These are the words of Anthony Towns, the Woody Release Manager in a message posted to debian-devel-announce mailing list. Check our Debian page for what is currently included in this release and join the discussion on Slashdot.
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| 2002-04-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian 2.2r6 |
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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r6. That's right - Potato's 6th revision is now available from Debian's main FTP server and its mirrors, according to this announcement. A security and bug fix update affecting CUPS, GCC, glibc, Kernel, Apache, PHP, Samba, Sendmail and Squid, just to name a few packages; the 2.2r6 preparation page and the ChangeLog are the best places to check what's new. On a related note, the Linux User magazine is looking for feedback to an idea to create a more user-friendly installer for future Debian releases. Read the proposal and join the discussion on this subject.
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| 2002-01-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian 2.2r5 |
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Another update for the ageing potato. As promised in the latest Debian Weekly News, the Debian project has released the fifth revision of the stable (potato) branch - version 2.2r5. "This may be the last version of the 2.2 series, depending on how well the woody release is going. There is, however, still a possibility 2.2r6 (to be scheduled at the beginning of March) has to be released before 3.0" As is normally the case with Debian revisions, there are no major package updates, other than security fixes. Apache, gpm, Kernel, Mutt, Telnet, SSH, PHP4, Postfix, PostgreSQL and wu-ftpd are among the affected packages. Consult the official announcement, release notes and ChangeLog for full details. ISO images have yet to be produced; more information on our Debian page. On a related note, KDE in sid has reportedly been fixed while VarLinux.org carries an interesting story on this subject: KDE on Debian Unstable is a mess.
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| 2002-01-09 |
NEW • Debian Updates |
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Debian Weekly News reports that a new release of the current stable branch (potato), version 2.2r5 should be available shortly: "It includes numerous bug fixes and renders some previously uninstallable packages installable. Most of the bug fixes are security related, so be sure to upgrade once the new point release hits the mirrors." Unfortunately, this probably means that a long awaited 3.0 (woody) release will be further postponed. Other interesting news items include a new debian_on_cd page, Debian-Med, a new project that supports tasks of people in medical care and information on broken KDE in sid. This issue of Debian Weekly News is available here.
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| 2001-11-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Debian 2.2r4 |
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A new "potato" revision has been released. Debian 2.2r4 is a security update - fixes include security updates to Linux Kernel, glibc, Zope, Procmail, Squid, Samba, fetchmail, Netscape, GnuPG and other packages. No major version updates, with the exception of Procmail, Netscape and GnuPG. Take a look at the updated ChangeLog, complete list of packages and the content of the Debian2.2r4 directory on the Debian FTP server. This site's Debian page has also been updated. |
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