On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Prasanna Venkadesh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Debian* stable version 6.0 code named "Squeeze" has been released. After 24 > months of arduous testing, the Debian team has finally released v 6.0 which > brings many firsts among its features. They are - > > > - *Technical previews* of two new ports which *runs on the FreeBSD kernel > * instead of the Linux kernel. This means FreeBSD will be powering the > operating system while the users still get to use all the great tools in the > Debian user-land. > - The Linux kernel has been scrubbed free of all the closed sourse > firmware files. In other words, you get a completely Free as in Freedom > Linux distribution in Debian 6.0 if you opt to download the package with > Linux kernel instead of the FreeBSD kernel. > - *Boot times have improved drastically* because of parallel execution of > boot scripts. > - *Most software has been updated* to the more modern versions. Linux > kernel 2.6.32 , KDE 4.4.5, GNOME 2.30, X.Org 7.5 and over 29,000 other ready > to use software packages.
I have always liked Debian. The packages are outdated but it has a nice apt-get feel. -Girish _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
