Debian Project announced last week the Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 operating system, codenamed “etch”, which is the first version officially supporting 64-bit AMD64 and Intel EM64T.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 includes a number of updated software packages from previous version, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.5.5a (KDE), an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.14, the Xfce 4.4 desktop environment, the GNUstep desktop 5.2 and X.Org 7.1.
There are also new 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 and Asterisk 1.2.13.
This free Linux distribution now comes with “out-of-the-box support for encrypted partitions”, as well as with a newly developed graphical front-end to the installation system translated to 58 languages.
Also beginning with Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, the package management system has been improved regarding security and efficiency, the Debian Project team says.
You can get Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 download information here.
