Two days ago, the team behind Debian announced the release of Debian stable version 10 (codename – ‘buster’), which will be supported for the next 5 years. Debian 10 will use the Wayland display server by default, includes over 91% of source reproducible projects, and ships with several desktop applications and environments.
Yesterday, Debian also released the GNU/Hurd 2019, which is a port release. It is currently available for the i386 architecture with about 80% of the Debian archive.
In this release, GNOME will use the Wayland display server by default, instead of Xorg. Wayland’s simple and modern design provides advantages in terms of security. The Xorg display server is installed in Debian 10, by default. Users can use the default display manager to change the display server in their session.
In Debian 10, the Reproducible Builds project plans to have over 91% of the source packages built in bit-for-bit identical binary packages. This will work as an important verification feature for users as it will protect them against malicious attempts to tamper with compilers and build networks.
Debian 10 “buster” ships with several desktop applications and environments. Some of the desktop environments include:
Visit the Debian official website, for more details on Debian 10.
The general reaction to both the Debian news has been positive with users praising Debian for always staying up to date with the latest features.
A Redditor says, “Through the years I’ve seen many a “popular” distro come and go, yet Debian remains.”
Another user on Hacker News adds, “I left Redhat at 8.0(long time ago, before Fedora) and started using debian/ubuntu and never looked back, in my opinion, while Redhat made a fortune by its business model, Debian and ubuntu are the true community OS, I can’t ask for more.
Debian has been my primary Server for the last 15 years, life is good with them. Thank you so much to the maintainers and contributors for putting so much effort into them.”
Read the Debian mailing list, for more information on Debian GNU/Hurd.
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