Thursday Sep 09

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released

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Last Updated on Saturday, 02 May 2009 17:53 Written by Administrator Saturday, 02 May 2009 11:31

Finally Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) has been released after 22 months of constant development.

Debian 5.0 is dedicated to Thiemo Seufer, a Debian Developer who died on December 26th, 2008 in a tragic car accident.

Thiemo was involved in Debian in many ways. He has maintained several packages and was the main supporter of the Debian port to the MIPS architectures.

He was also a member of our kernel team, as well as a member of the Debian Installer team. His contributions reached far beyond the Debian project. He also worked on the MIPS port of the Linux kernel, the MIPS emulation of qemu, and far too many smaller projects to be named here.

Thiemo's work, commitment, broad technical knowledge and ability to share this with others will be missed. Thiemo's contributions will not be forgotten. The high standards of his work make it hard to pick up.

Debian GNU/Linux runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of twelve architectures are supported:

  1. Sun SPARC (sparc),
  2. HP Alpha (alpha),
  3. Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc),
  4. Intel IA-32 (i386),
  5. IA-64 (ia64),
  6. HP PA-RISC (hppa),
  7. MIPS (mips, mipsel),
  8. ARM (arm, armel),
  9. IBM S/390 (s390),
  10. AMD64 and Intel EM64T (amd64).

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny adds support for many storage devices:

  1. Marvell's Orion platform,
  2. QNAP Turbo Station series,
  3. HP Media Vault mv2120,
  4. Buffalo Kurobox Pro.

Additionally, Lenny now supports several Netbooks in particular the Eee PC by Asus.

This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as:

  • K Desktop Environment 3.5.10 (KDE),
  • GNOME desktop environment 2.22.2,
  • Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment,
  • LXDE 0.3.2.1 ,
  • GNUstep desktop 7.3,
  • X.Org 7.3,
  • OpenOffice.org 2.4.1,
  • GIMP 2.4.7,
  • Iceweasel 3.0.6 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox),
  • Icedove 2.0.0.19 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird),
  • PostgreSQL 8.3.6,
  • MySQL 5.0.51a,
  • GNU Compiler Collection 4.3.2,
  • Linux kernel version 2.6.26,
  • Apache 2.2.9,
  • Samba 3.2.5,
  • Python 2.5.2 and 2.4.6,
  • Perl 5.10.0,
  • PHP 5.2.6,
  • Asterisk 1.4.21.2,
  • Emacs 22,
  • Inkscape 0.46,
  • Nagios 3.06,
  • Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1 (dom0 as well as domU support),
  • OpenJDK 6b11,
  • and more than 23,000 other ready-to-use software packages (built from over 12,000 source packages).