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Debian GNU/Linux

Last Update: Thursday 4 December 2008 06:21 GMT

debian

Debian Summary
Distribution Debian GNU/Linux
Home Page http://www.debian.org/
Origin Global
Mailing Lists http://lists.debian.org/
User Forums Debian User ForumsLinuxQuestions.orgDebianForum.de (German) • Unixboard.de (German) • Debian Srbija forumi (Serbian) • esDebian (Spanish)
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Documentation http://www.debian.org/doc/
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Download Mirrors http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist
Debian on CD
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Status This distribution is active.
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About Debian GNU/Linux
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 GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. 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 20,000 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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Table Notes and Explanations
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  • Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the 'libgnome' and 'nautilus' packages. As per the Apache project's recommendations, apache 1.3.x is referred to as "apache", while apache 2.x is referred to as "httpd".
  • Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.

Feature unstable
sid
testing
lenny
4.0
etch
3.1
sarge
3.0
woody
2.2
potato
2.1
slink
2.0
hamm
1.3
bo
1.2
rex
1.1
buzz
Feature
Release Date 2008/12/04 2008/12/04 2007/04/08 2005/06/06 2002/07/19 2000/08/15 1999/03/09 1998/07/23 1997/06/05 1996/12/12 1996/06/17 Release Date
Price (US$) Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Price (US$)
CDs -- -- 21 14 7 4 4 2       CDs
Free Download ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO Yes Yes Yes Yes Free Download
Installation Graphical Graphical Graphical Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Text mode Installation
Default Desktop GNOME GNOME GNOME GNOME GNOME GNOME GNOME         Default Desktop
Package Management DEB DEB DEB DEB DEB DEB DEB DEB DEB DEB DEB Package Management
Office Suite GNOME Office, KOffice, OpenOffice GNOME Office, KOffice, OpenOffice GNOME Office, KOffice, OpenOffice GNOME Office, KOffice, OpenOffice KOffice -- -- -- -- -- -- Office Suite
Processor Architecture Alpha, AMD64, Arm, Armel, HPPA, i386, IA64, Mips, Mipsel, PPC, S390, Sparc AMD64, Alpha, Arm, Armel, HPPA, i386, IA64, Mips, Mipsel, PPC, S390, Sparc AMD64, Alpha, Arm, HPPA, i386, IA64, m68k, Mips, Mipsel, PPC, S390, Sparc Alpha, Arm, HPPA, i386, IA64, m68k, Mips, PPC, S390, Sparc Alpha, Arm, HPPA, i386, IA64, m68k, Mips, PPC, S390, Sparc             Processor Architecture
Journaled File Systems ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, ReiserFS             Journaled File Systems
Multilingual Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Multilingual
Asian Language Support Yes Yes Yes cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw Asian Language Support
Package unstable
sid
testing
lenny
4.0
etch
3.1
sarge
3.0
woody
2.2
potato
2.1
slink
2.0
hamm
1.3
bo
1.2
rex
1.1
buzz
Package
abiword (2.6.5) 2.6.4 2.6.4 2.4.6 2.2.7 1.0.2 0.7.7 -- -- -- -- -- abiword (2.6.5)
alsa-lib (1.0.18) 1.0.17 1.0.17 1.0.13 1.0.8 0.9.0beta12 0.4.1e 0.1.1 -- -- -- -- alsa-lib (1.0.18)
amarok (1.4.10) 1.4.10 1.4.10 1.4.4 1.2.3 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- amarok (1.4.10)
ati-driver (8.11) 8.7 8 8.28.8 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ati-driver (8.11)
bind (9.5.0-P2) 9.5.0 9.5.0 9.3.4 9.2.4 8.3.3 8.2.2-P7 8.1.2 8.1.2 4.9.7 4.9.4-P1 4.9.3-P1 bind (9.5.0-P2)
compiz (0.6.2) 0.7.6 0.7.6 0.2.2 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- compiz (0.6.2)
cups (1.3.9) 1.3.8 1.3.8 1.2.7 1.1.23 1.1.14 1.0.4 -- -- -- -- -- cups (1.3.9)
db (4.7.25) 4.7.25 4.6.21 4.4.20 4.3.27 3.2.9 2.4.14 2.4.14 2.3.16 -- -- -- db (4.7.25)
dhcp (4.0.0) 3.1.1 3.1.1 3.0.4 3.0.1 2.0pl5 2.0pl4 1.0.2 1.0.2 -- -- -- dhcp (4.0.0)
emacs (22.3) 22.2 22.2 21.4a 21.4a 21.2 20.7 20.5a 20.2 19.34 19.34 19.31 emacs (22.3)
evolution (2.24.2) 2.22.3.1 2.22.3.1 2.6.3 2.0.4 1.0.5 -- -- -- -- -- -- evolution (2.24.2)
firefox (3.0.4) 3.0.4 3.0.3 2.0.0.3 1.0.4 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- firefox (3.0.4)
freetype (2.3.7) 2.3.7 2.3.7 2.2.1 2.1.7 1.4pre 1.3.1 1.2 1.0 0.3 -- -- freetype (2.3.7)
gcc (4.3.2) 4.3.2 4.3.2 4.1.1 3.3.5 2.95.4 2.95.2 2.7.2.3 2.7.2.3 2.7.2.1 -- 2.7.2 gcc (4.3.2)
gimp (2.6.3) 2.4.7 2.4.7 2.2.13 2.2.6 1.2.3 1.0.4 1.0.2 1.0.0 0.54.1 -- 0.54.1 gimp (2.6.3)
glibc (2.9) 2.7 2.7 2.3.6 2.3.2 2.2.5 2.1.3 2.0.7 2.0.7t 1.92 1.92 -- glibc (2.9)
gnucash (2.2.7) 2.2.6 2.2.6 2.0.5 1.8.10 1.6.6 1.3.4 -- -- -- -- -- gnucash (2.2.7)
gnumeric (1.8.3) 1.8.3 1.8.3 1.6.3 1.4.3 1.0.8 0.47 0.3 -- -- -- -- gnumeric (1.8.3)
gtk+ (2.14.5) 2.12.11 2.12.11 2.8.20 2.6.4 2.0.2 1.0.6 1.0.6 1.0.4 -- -- -- gtk+ (2.14.5)
httpd (2.2.10) 2.2.9 2.2.9 2.2.3 2.0.54 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- httpd (2.2.10)
inkscape (0.46) 0.46 0.46 0.44.1 0.41 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- inkscape (0.46)
jre (6u11) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- jre (6u11)
k3b (1.0.5) 1.0.5 1.0.5 0.12.17 0.11.20 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- k3b (1.0.5)
kaffeine (0.8.7) 0.8.7 0.8.7 0.8.3 0.6 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- kaffeine (0.8.7)
kdebase (4.1.3) 3.5.9 3.5.9 3.5.5 3.3.2 2.2.2 -- -- 980312 -- -- -- kdebase (4.1.3)
koffice (1.6.3) 1.6.3 1.6.3 1.6.1 1.3.5 1.1.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- koffice (1.6.3)
Package unstable
sid
testing
lenny
4.0
etch
3.1
sarge
3.0
woody
2.2
potato
2.1
slink
2.0
hamm
1.3
bo
1.2
rex
1.1
buzz
Package
libgnome (2.24.1) 2.20.1.1 2.20.1.1 2.16.0 2.8.1 1.4.1.4 -- -- -- -- -- -- libgnome (2.24.1)
linux (2.6.27.7) 2.6.26 2.6.26 2.6.18 2.4.27 2.2.20 2.2.16 2.0.36 2.0.34 2.0.29 2.0.27 2.0.0 linux (2.6.27.7)
module-init-tools (3.5) 3.4 3.4 3.3-pre4 3.2-pre1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- module-init-tools (3.5)
mono (2.0.1) 1.9.1 1.9.1 1.2.2.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- mono (2.0.1)
MPlayer (1.0rc2) 1.0rc2 1.0rc2 1.0rc1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- MPlayer (1.0rc2)
mysql (5.1.30) 5.0.67 5.0.51a 5.0.32 4.0.24 3.23.49 3.22.32 3.21.33b 3.21.31 -- -- -- mysql (5.1.30)
nautilus (2.24.2) 2.20.0 2.20.0 2.14.3 2.8.2 1.0.6 -- -- -- -- -- -- nautilus (2.24.2)
NVIDIA (177.82) 173.14.09 173.14.09 1.0-8776 1.0-7174 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- NVIDIA (177.82)
OpenOffice.org (3.0.0) 2.4.1 2.4.1 2.0.4 1.1.3 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- OpenOffice.org (3.0.0)
openssh (5.1p1) 5.1p1 5.1p1 4.3p2 3.8.1p1 3.4p1 1.2.3 1.2 -- -- -- -- openssh (5.1p1)
openssl (0.9.8i) 0.9.8g 0.9.8g 0.9.8c 0.9.7e 0.9.6c -- -- -- -- -- -- openssl (0.9.8i)
perl (5.10.0) 5.10.0 5.10.0 5.8.8 5.8.4 5.6.1 5.4.5 5.4.4 5.4.4 5.3.7 5.3.7 5.2 perl (5.10.0)
php (5.2.7) 5.2.6 5.2.6 5.2.0 4.3.10 4.1.2 4.0.3pl1 3.0.5 3.0 2.0b10 -- -- php (5.2.7)
pidgin (2.5.2) 2.4.3 2.4.3 2.0.0beta5 1.2.1 0.58 -- -- -- -- -- -- pidgin (2.5.2)
postfix (2.5.5) 2.5.5 2.5.5 2.3.8 2.1.5 1.1.11 19991231 -- -- -- -- -- postfix (2.5.5)
postgresql (8.3.5) 8.3.5 8.3.5 8.1.8 7.4.7 7.2.1 6.5.3 6.3.2 6.3.2 -- -- -- postgresql (8.3.5)
Python (3.0) 2.5.2 2.5.2 2.4.4 2.3.5 2.1.3 1.5.2 1.5.1 1.5.1 1.4.0 1.4.0 1.3 Python (3.0)
qt-x11 (4.4.3) 3.3.8b 3.3.8b 3.3.7 3.3.4 2.3.1 1.45 1.40 1.33 1.2 -- -- qt-x11 (4.4.3)
samba (3.2.5) 3.2.5 3.2.5 3.0.24 3.0.14a 2.2.3a 2.0.7 2.0.5a 1.9.18p8 1.9.17p2 1.9.16p9 1.9.15p4 samba (3.2.5)
sendmail (8.14.3) 8.14.3 8.14.3 8.13.8 8.13.4 8.12.3 8.9.3 8.9.3 8.8.8 8.8.5 8.7.6 8.7.5 sendmail (8.14.3)
thunderbird (2.0.0.18) 2.0.0.17 2.0.0.17 1.5.0.10 1.0.2 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- thunderbird (2.0.0.18)
udev (135) 125 125 105 056 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- udev (135)
vim (7.2) 7.2 7.1 7.0 6.3 6.1 5.6 5.3 5.0 4.6 4.5 3.0 vim (7.2)
xfce (4.4.3) 4.4.2 4.4.2 4.3.99.2 4.0.5 3.8.16 -- -- -- -- -- -- xfce (4.4.3)
xine-lib (1.1.15) 1.1.14 1.1.14 1.1.2 1.0.1 0.9.8 -- -- -- -- -- -- xine-lib (1.1.15)
xorg-server (1.5.3) 1.4.2 1.4.2 1.1.1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- xorg-server (1.5.3)


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