Debian GNU/Linux version 6.0 has been released ( jump to download ) after 24 months of constant development and available for download in various media format. Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a "technology preview". It also supports various processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, LXDE and other desktop environments. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB.
Debian 6.0 introduces a dependency based boot system, making system start-up faster and more robust due to parallel execution of boot scripts and correct dependency tracking between them. Various other changes make Debian more suitable for small form factor notebooks, like the introduction of the KDE Plasma Netbook shell. Following new updated major software packages are included:
KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications version 4.4.5an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment version 2.30the Xfce version 4.6 desktop environmentLXDE version 0.5.0X.Org version 7.5OpenOffice.org version 3.2.1GIMP version 2.6.11Iceweasel version 3.5.16 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)Icedove version 3.0.11 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)PostgreSQL version 8.4.6MySQL version 5.1.49GNU Compiler Collection version 4.4.5Linux kernel version 2.6.32Apache web server version 2.2.16Samba file and print server version 3.5.6Python version 2.6.6, 2.5.5 and 3.1.3Perl version 5.10.1PHP version 5.3.3Asterisk version 1.6.2.9Nagios version 3.2.3Xen Hypervisor 4.0.1 (dom0 as well as domU support)OpenJDK version 6b18Tomcat version 6.0.18And more than 29,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 15,000 source packages.
Debian provides all packages on CD / DVD and the total size is around 32GB+ for all media files. You only need to download first CD / DVD and install the base system. Once downloaded, use the Internet to install any packages.
For almost all PCs use 32 bit version. For e.g., most machines with Intel/AMD type processors.Choose 64 bit version to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2 duo).
There are total 8 DVD images:
You can use the following shell script to grab all 8 DVD images:
#!/bin/bash# getdeb6: Download Debian 6 DVD images# Tip: run it over screen session_bit="${1:-64}"_arch="i386"_base="http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/i386/iso-dvd"[ "$_bit" == "64" ] && { _base="http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/amd64/iso-dvd"; _arch="amd64"; }echo "Downloading Debian Linux v6.0 ${_bit} bit DVD..."for i in {1..8}do # build image path_image="${_base}/debian-6.0.0-${_arch}-DVD-${i}.iso"wget -c $_imagedone
To grab 32 bit images, enter:
$ mkdir debian6_32 && cd debian6_32
$ ./getdeb6 32
To grab 64 bit images
$ mkdir debian6_64 && cd debian6_64
$ ./getdeb6
There are total 52 ISO images, I strongly suggest to get DVD images :
You can use the following shell script to grab all 52 images:
#!/bin/bash# getdeb6: Download Debian 6 ISO images# Tip: run it over screen session_bit="${1:-64}"_arch="i386"_base="http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/i386/iso-cd"[ "$_bit" == "64" ] && { _base="http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/amd64/iso-cd"; _arch="amd64";}echo "Downloading Debian Linux v6.0 ${_bit} bit ISO images..."for i in {1..52}do_image="${_base}/debian-6.0.0-${_arch}-CD-${i}.iso"wget -c $_imagedone
To grab 32 bit images, enter:
$ mkdir debian6_32 && cd debian6_32
$ ./getdeb6 32
To grab 64 bit images
$ mkdir debian6_64 && cd debian6_64
$ ./getdeb6
Download images from the following mirror:
Fig.01: Default Ubuntu Linux 11.04 Desktop with Unity Graphical Interface64 Bit DVD version (4G)32 Bit DVD version (3.9G)
Fig.01: Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Desktop64 Bit DVD version32 Bit DVD version
Fig.01: Fedora Linux v.14 desktop (image credit: wikipedia)