Squeeze

After two years of development Debian Linux version 6.0 (code name “Squeeze”) has been released along with a technology preview of Debian  GNU/kFreeBSD, a new variant of Debian, this time not based on Linux, but based on FreeBSD. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU user land using the GNU C library on top of FreeBSD’s kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set.

Debian GNU/Linux is distributed freely over Internet. You can download all of it from any of the mirrors. There is also an Installation Manual with detailed installation instructions.

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.

This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as:

·         KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.4.5

·         An updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.30

·         The Xfce 4.6 desktop environment

·         X.Org 7.5

·         OpenOffice.org 3.2.1

·         Iceweasel 3.5.16 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)

·         Icedove 3.0.11 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)

·         PostgreSQL 8.4.6

·         MySQL 5.1.49

·         Linux 2.6.32

·         Xen Hypervisor 4.0.1 (dom0 as well as domU support)

·         OpenJDK 6b18

Debian 6.0 includes over 10,000 new packages including the open source version of Google’s Chrome browser called Chromium. Support has also been added for the ext4 and Btrfs file systems and — on the kFreeBSD architecture — the Zettabyte file system (ZFS). The installation system for Debian GNU/Linux is now available in 70 languages.