Since Sunday morning available to Debian 6.0 Debian Project for the first time in two flavors: Debian GNU / Linux and Debian / kFreeBSD (as a technology preview). Contains software released under the GPL and other free licenses are compatible with OSI. Even the firmware files whose source code is not published have been removed from the Debian distribution.
Debian 6.0 includes KDE desktop environments, KDE Plasma for Netbooks, GNOME, Xfce and LXDE as well as all sorts of server applications. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB. It also includes about 10,000 new packages such as Chromium browser the Icing monitoring solution, the user interface for package management Software Center, wicd network manager, tools LXC Linux container and environment for corosync clusters.
In this version no longer contains the core problem of firmware files. These have been split into separate packages and have moved outside the main Debian archive to the area not free (non-free) file, which is not enabled by default. Some examples are Advansys SCSI drivers, ATI and Matrox graphics, and Ethernet adapters from 3Com and Broadcom, and WLAN modules. Packages in the non-free repository is intentionally left off the CD and DVD Debian official to force users to decide whether to use non-free software and encourage them to change completely free hardware drivers and firmware available.
It also introduces a dependency-based startup, so the startup is now faster and more robust due to the parallel execution of startup programs and proper monitoring of their interdependencies.
The Squeeze Debian changes are modest - as usual in Debian - but that is the purpose of a stable release with well-tested software, so take your precautions if you plan to upgrade some of their packages.
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