Debian
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.
Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 29000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine. Read more...
Getting Started
- If you'd like to start using Debian, you can easily obtain a copy, and then follow the installation instructions to install it.
- If you're upgrading to the latest stable release from a previous version, please read the release notes before proceeding.
- To get help in using or setting up Debian, see our documentation and support pages.
- Users that speak languages other than English should check the international section.
- People who use systems other than Intel x86 should check the ports section.
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News
[04 Apr 2013] A Bytemark donation boosts reliability of Debian's core infrastructure
[21 Mar 2013] Eaton donates hardware to Debian
[20 Mar 2013] Backports integrated in the main archive
[01 Mar 2013] Discover Debian's hassle-free trademarks, use them
to promote Debian
[23 Feb 2013] Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.7 released
[19 Feb 2013] Debian Installer 7.0 Release Candidate 1 published
For older news items see the News Page. If you would like to receive mail whenever new Debian news comes out, subscribe to the debian-announce mailing list.
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Security Advisories
[30 Apr 2013] DSA-2665 strongswan - authentication bypass
[22 Apr 2013] DSA-2663 tinc - stack based buffer overflow
[20 Apr 2013] DSA-2660 curl - exposure of sensitive information
[18 Apr 2013] DSA-2662 xen - several vulnerabilities
[17 Apr 2013] DSA-2661 xorg-server - information disclosure
[09 Apr 2013] DSA-2659 libapache-mod-security - XML external entity processing vulnerability
[04 Apr 2013] DSA-2658 postgresql-9.1 - several vulnerabilities
[04 Apr 2013] DSA-2657 postgresql-8.4 - guessable random numbers
[03 Apr 2013] DSA-2654 libxslt - denial of service
[30 Mar 2013] DSA-2656 bind9 - denial of service
For older security advisories see the Security Page. If you would like to receive security advisories as soon as they're announced, subscribe to the debian-security-announce mailing list.