Download Debian GNU/Linux 6.0

This weekend saw the final release of version 6.0 of Debian. Debian is an open source operating system, which can be used for both desktops and servers, with an emphasis on stability and security. It is therefore used as the basis for various Linux distributions. In version 6.0, codenamed ‘Squeeze’, we also see a GNU/kFreeBSD implementation for the first time. The changelog also mentions a large number of updated software packages and more than 10,000 new software packages:

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
• LXDE 0.5.0
• X.Org 7.5
• OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
• GIMP 2.6.11
• 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
• GNU Compiler Collection 4.4.5
• Linux 2.6.32
• Apache 2.2.16
• Samba 3.5.6
• Python 2.6.6, 2.5.5 and 3.1.3
• Perl 5.10.1
• PHP 5.3.3
• Asterisk 1.6.2.9
• Nagios 3.2.3
• Xen Hypervisor 4.0.1 (dom0 as well as domU support)
• OpenJDK 6b18
• Tomcat 6.0.18
• more than 29,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 15,000 source packages.

Debian 6.0 includes over 10,000 new packages like the browser Chromium, the monitoring solution Icinga, the package management frontend Software Center, the network manager wicd, the Linux container tools lxc and the cluster framework Corosync.