h3xis Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 releasedThe Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed "etch", after 21 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. It also features cryptographic software and compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.1 of the LSB. Using a now fully integrated installation process, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 comes with out-of-the-box support for encrypted partitions. This release introduces a newly developed graphical frontend to the installation system supporting scripts using composed characters and complex languages; the installation system for Debian GNU/Linux has now been translated to 58 languages. This release includes a number of updated software packages, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.5 (KDE), an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.14, the Xfce 4.4 desktop environment, the GNUstep desktop 5.2, X.Org 7.1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.4a, GIMP 2.2.13, Iceweasel (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3), Icedove (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5), Iceape (an unbranded version of Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.8), PostgreSQL 8.1.8, MySQL 5.0.32, GNU Compiler Collection 4.1.1, Linux kernel version 2.6.18, Apache 2.2.3, Samba 3.0.24, Python 2.4.4 and 2.5, Perl 5.8.8, PHP 4.4.4 and 5.2.0, Asterisk 1.2.13, and more than 18,000 other ready to use software packages. Source Wow, finally, and on Easter day too! I've been running Etch for a few months now and it seems as solid as ever. I think this is the project's best release yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Nice!! Congratulations to the Debian Team! *moves this to the front page* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paixao Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Thanks for the update. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostOnes Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Honestly, Debian lost my respect with the whole Mozilla mess, but at least this helps Ubuntu indirectly :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andareed Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Honestly, Debian lost my respect with the whole Mozilla mess, but at least this helps Ubuntu indirectly :whistle: Debian didn't have much choice. If they wanted to use Firefox/Thunderbird branding, they would have to get patches approved by Mozilla, which kinda defeats the purpose of free (as in speech) software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouldy Punk Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Honestly, Debian lost my respect with the whole Mozilla mess, but at least this helps Ubuntu indirectly :whistle: It makes no difference to the end user anyway. All that's different is you've got to click on Iceweasel instead of Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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