Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Debian 4.0 etch goes STABLE

I guess you already know that but I am going to post it.
This release includes a newly developed graphical frontend to the installation system. Also the package management system has been improved regarding securety and efficiency.

Secure APT allows the verification of the integrity of packages downloaded from a mirror. Updated package indices won't be downloaded in their entirety, but instead patched with smaller files containing only differences from earlier versions.

Here are the most-important updates to the "main" packages:
  • K Desktop Environment 3.5.5a
  • GNOME Desktop Environment 2.14
  • XFCE Desctop Environment 4.4
  • Xorg 7.1
  • OpenOffice.org 2.0.4a
  • GIMP 2.2.13
  • MySQL 5.0.32
  • GNU Compiler Collection 4.1.1
  • Linux kernel version 2.6.18
  • Apache 2.2.3
  • Samba 3.0.24
  • Python 2.4.4 and 2.5
  • Perl 5.8.8
  • PHP 4.4.4 and 5.2.0
and other 18 000 packages ..... :)

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