After the delay for releasing the new distribution of Debian, the mother of many distros, such as Ubuntu, Knoppix, or Lenny (Debian 5.0), it has finally seen the light. Few days ago they replicated the distro to all the mirrors so that you can now celebrate the 15th anniversary of the distribution. Download is available by both HTTP & Torrent.

After 22 months of development Debian 5.0 has been presented. The free operating system supports twelve arquitcturas constant. Debian GNU / Linux is a free operating system that supports a total of twelve architectures, Sun SPARC (sparc), HP Alpha (alpha), Motorola / IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Intel IA-32 (i386), IA-64 (ia64) HP PA-RISC (hppa), MIPS (mips, mipsel), ARM (arm, Armel), IBM S/390 (s390), and AMD’s AMD64 and Intel EM64T (amd64). Apart from the most popular desktop environments: KDE, GNOME, Xfce and LXDE.

Debian has new versions of its more than 12,000 packages, and it CDs/DVDs includes 3.5.10 K Desktop Environment (KDE), an updated version of the GNOME 2.22.2 desktop environment, the Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment , LXDE 0.3.2.1, the GNUstep desktop 7.3, X. Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP 2.4.7, iceweasel 3.0.6 (a version of Mozilla Firefox does not use the trademark), icedove 2.0.0.19 (a version of Mozilla Thunderbird that does not use the trademark), PostgreSQL 8.3.6, MySQL 5.0.51a, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 4.3.2, the Linux kernel version 2.6.26, Apache 2.2.9 , Samba 3.2.5, Python 2.5.2 and 2.4.6, Perl 5.10.0, PHP 5.2.6, Asterisk 1.4.21.2, 22 Emacs, Inkscape 0.46, Nagios 3.06, Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1 (with support for both dom0 to domu), OpenJDK 6b11 and over 23,000 other software packages ready for use (to us from 12,000 source packages).

X. Org 7.3 is the version accepted figure as manager due to the stability and possibility of integration with the graphics hardware automatically. Supports native NTFS and Flash using Gnash or swfdec and have launched versions for specific hardware such as ultra-fashionable, especially the EEEPC.

The announcement of the new version has been devoted to Thiemo Seufer, a Debian developer, mainly to adapt the system for MIPS platforms, who died last December 26 in a traffic accident.

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This Article has adopted the original article of Jesús Maturana which was originaly written in Spanish.