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 37500 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
[15 Jun 2013] Updated Debian 7: 7.1 released
[23 May 2013] Debian Project mourns the loss of Ray Dassen
[04 May 2013] Debian 7.0 Wheezy
released
[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
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
[18 Jun 2013] DSA-2710 xml-security-c - several vulnerabilities
[17 Jun 2013] DSA-2709 wireshark - several vulnerabilities
[16 Jun 2013] DSA-2708 fail2ban - denial of service
[13 Jun 2013] DSA-2707 dbus - denial of service
[10 Jun 2013] DSA-2706 chromium-browser - several vulnerabilities
[10 Jun 2013] DSA-2705 pymongo - denial of service
[09 Jun 2013] DSA-2704 mesa - out of bounds access
[09 Jun 2013] DSA-2703 subversion - several vulnerabilities
[03 Jun 2013] DSA-2702 telepathy-gabble - TLS verification bypass
[02 Jun 2013] DSA-2700 wireshark - several vulnerabilities
[02 Jun 2013] DSA-2699 iceweasel - several vulnerabilities
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.