Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released

[yashiro]

February 14th, 2009

"The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny")
after 22 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of
twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments.
It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB."

Standard Release Page
http://www.debian.org/distrib/

Bittorrent Tracker
http://bttracker.debian.org:6969/

UK mirrors (some not updated yet)
ftp://debian.virginmedia.com/mirrors/debian-cd/ FTP
ftp://ftp.ticklers.org/debian-cd/ FTP
http://ftp.ticklers.org/debian-cd/ HTTP
ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/ FTP
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/ HTTP
ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/debian-cd/ FTP
http://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/debian-cd/ HTTP
ftp://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian-cd/ FTP
http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian-cd/ HTTP

LiveCD Builds
http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/5.0.0-live/

 

[yashiro]

Yashiro, why should I try debian whats so good about it?

I just thought it deserved a post. It has taken them 22 months after all.

It's a good choice for a server if you've become accustomed to Ubuntu.

 

[yashiro]

Debian is pretty much THE grand daddy of distros. It supports more than anything else and has a huge catalog of pre-compiled binaries.

If there is one GNU/Linux distro that you should support in some fashion, it should be Debian.
I think I'll resurrect my old Pentium III with Debian 5 and see how it goes

 

[yashiro]

Try them both. I reckon Ubuntu will probably work better though.

While Ubuntu is based on Debian they have done a lot of work to get it to a good desktop state.
Vanilla Debian is a bit cack. It takes a bit of work to sort it all out.

 

[yashiro]

Given how long the unibod Macs have been out it'd be a bit pathetic if 9.04 doesn't work perfectly out of the box.
If it does I'll probably get a Macbook. I've got enough machines to fiddle with as it is. A Linux laptop that just works would be most welcome.