Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released

yashiro

yashiro

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February 14th, 2009

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"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/
 
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I still struggle to see whats the point of debian on the desktop, when ubuntu is so much easier "linux for human beings" or whatever it is :)

Yashiro, why should I try debian whats so good about it? plus's or minus' over ubuntu?

Im trying arch again atm and i like but am open to change :p
 
Oxy said:
I still struggle to see whats the point of debian on the desktop, when ubuntu is so much easier "linux for human beings" or whatever it is :)

Yashiro, why should I try debian whats so good about it? plus's or minus' over ubuntu?

Im trying arch again atm and i like but am open to change :p
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Stick with arch imo. Debian has the benefits of not coming with all the 'tat' that ubuntu does. However if you are are a novice at linux then all the 'tat' is to take away the possible complications of getting supported drivers.

Jack.
 
Yashiro, why should I try debian whats so good about it?
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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.
 
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yashiro said:
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.
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oh yeh thanks, my post wasn't written that well tbh. I wasn't bewing hostile, I just disn't really understand what debian was aimed at.

I guess its a stable, fairly minimal, with loads of support kinda distro??
 
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 :D
 
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BillytheImpaler said:
It's stable like a rock and runs on every architecture under the sun. A base, GUI-less install is about 400 MiB on disk.
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is it better to run debian for my macbook instead of ubuntu?

I haven't actually installed anything yet, but my only concern with ubuntu is the quick turn around of each version, I supposed I could install the long time support thingy version.

Tempted to try debian on me macbook 4.1, just want something other than ubuntu tbh :)
 
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.
 
Ubuntu makes for a better desktop for most people. If you don't like the 6-month release cycle why don't you just pretend the fall release doesn't exist? You can keep on going with 9.04 until 10.04 is out.

Heck, since 8.04 is LTS you can keep on using that with support for another 2 years.
 
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.
 
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yashiro said:
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.
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8.10, according to ubuntu wiki is pretty much 100% proof. wireless works out-of-the-box theres a nice guide to get the touchpad fully working. compiz worked great on the live CD.

I'll move some stuff off the mac and then partition my drive and install ubuntu on it tommorrow morning and report back :p
 
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Ubuntu makes for a better desktop for most people. If you don't like the 6-month release cycle why don't you just pretend the fall release doesn't exist? You can keep on going with 9.04 until 10.04 is out.

Heck, since 8.04 is LTS you can keep on using that with support for another 2 years.
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The plan for my xubuntu box is LTSs only.

Now, my Debian 5 EEE, will an apt-get upgrade bring me from testing to stable?


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Code: 
#cat /etc/debian_version
5.0

Guess it did, YAY!
 
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I don't understand how people can criticise Ubuntu for having 'tat' when Debian comes with 25113 pre-compiled packages. Now what are the chances of me needing even 10% of those?

Why can't the distributors just make a base install with driver support etc, then let you choose yourself which apps you want? All this pre-compiled package nonsense makes me think of Suse which installs tons of crap you don't need by default :(
 
Thats exactly what Debian does mate - you decide how many of those 25000 odd apps you want. YOU. No one else makes the decision on your behalf.
 
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