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Debian 12 (Bookworm) with GNOME. Debian 12 (Bookworm) was released on 10 June 2023. [68] It is based on Linux kernel v6.1 LTS, and uses GNOME 43 as its default desktop environment, but as usual many other desktops are available, such as KDE Plasma 5.27, LXDE 11, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, and Xfce 4.18. [281]
Debian 12 installation menu (UEFI Mode) Text version of the Debian Installer Graphical version of the Debian Installer Debian 12 console login and welcome message. Debian has access to online repositories that contain over 51,000 packages. [84] Debian officially contains only free software, but non-free software can be downloaded and installed ...
It is based on Debian Bullseye (11.1) with Linux kernel 5.10. Devuan 5.0 Daedalus was released on August 15, 2023. It is based on Debian Bookworm (12.1) with Linux kernel 6.1. The current testing suite with code name Excalibur is planned for 2025+. It is based on Debian Trixie (13) with Linux kernel 6.10.
Debian family tree. Debian (a portmanteau of the names "Deb" and "Ian") Linux is a distribution that emphasizes free software.It supports many hardware platforms. Debian and distributions based on it use the .deb package format [2] and the dpkg package manager and its frontends (such as apt or synaptic).
It is currently based on the Debian Bookworm (release 12) distribution. [23] Release 1.0 was announced on 29 April 2015. [24] A version based on Debian 10.0 was released on 8 July 2019. [25] The version based on Debian 11.0 was released on 16 August 2021, and the version based on Debian 11.1 was released on 23 September 2021. [7] [26] [27]
Some distributions like Debian tend to separate tools into different packages – usually stable release, development release, documentation and debug. Also counting the source package number varies. For debian and rpm based entries it is just the base to produce binary packages, so the total number of packages is the number of binary packages.
Diagram showing an example file structure of a .deb file Frhed hex editor displaying the raw data of a Debian package. Prior to Debian 0.93, a package consisted of a file header and two concatenated gzip archives. [6] Since Debian 0.93, a deb package is implemented as an ar archive. [7] This archive contains three files in a specific order: [8] [9]
The Debian CDs available for download contain Debian repositories. This allows non-networked machines to be upgraded. One can also use apt-zip. Problems may appear when several sources offer the same package(s). Systems that have such possibly conflicting sources can use APT pinning to control which sources should be preferred.