Debian Squeeze

Debian GNU/Linux

Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. Debian project has released it's version 6 today on 6th feb 2011.


Highlights of Debian 6.0:
Linux kernel 2.6.32;
· X.Org 7.5;
· KDE Software Compilation 4.4.5;
· GNOME 2.30;
· Xfce 4.6;
· LXDE 0.5.0;
· OpenOffice.org 3.2.1;
· GIMP 2.6.11;
· Iceweasel 3.5.16;
· Icedove 3.0.11;
· PostgreSQL 8.4.6;
· MySQL 5.1.49;
· GCC 4.4.5;
· 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 (with support for dom0 and domU);
· OpenJDK 6b18;
· Tomcat 6.0.18;
· and more than 29,000 various applications, built from about 15,000 source packages and all this on 9 architectures!

What makes debian amazing distro is:
Total nine architectures are supported by Debian GNU/Linux: 32-bit PC / Intel IA-32 (i386), 64-bit PC / Intel EM64T / x86-64 (amd64), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Sun/Oracle SPARC (sparc), MIPS (mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian)), Intel Itanium (ia64), IBM S/390 (s390), and ARM EABI (armel).


Here is a link to download debian:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/
Mirror list
http://www.debian.org/mirror/list

Here are debian wiki links:
http://wiki.debian.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian

To access packages here is link:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

The debian FAQ link:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/index.en.html#contents

Debian support/help links:
http://www.debian.org/support
http://www.debianhelp.org/

Some external sites for debian:

Debian arts:
http://www.debianart.org/cchost/

Debian tutorials:
http://www.debiantutorials.org/

Debian Administration site:
http://www.debian-administration.org/

Debian forums:
http://forums.debian.net/
http://www.debianhelp.org/forum/1
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/