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
[10 Nov 2012] Help us to release Wheezy
: participate to our BSP marathon
[29 Sep 2012] Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.6 released
[16 Aug 2012] Debian Community celebrates its 19th birthday
[13 Aug 2012] Organize a Debian Birthday party in your city
[10 Aug 2012] Help the Debian Installer team: test the new
version of the installer!
[16 Jul 2012] DebConf makes in-roads in Central America
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
[03 Feb 2013] DSA-2616 nagios3 - buffer overflow in CGI scripts
[02 Feb 2013] DSA-2617 samba - several issues
[01 Feb 2013] DSA-2615 libupnp4 - several vulnerabilities
[01 Feb 2013] DSA-2614 libupnp - several vulnerabilities
[29 Jan 2013] DSA-2613 rails - insufficient input validation
[24 Jan 2013] DSA-2612 ircd-ratbox - programming error
[22 Jan 2013] DSA-2611 movabletype-opensource - several vulnerabilities
[21 Jan 2013] DSA-2610 ganglia - arbitrary script execution
[19 Jan 2013] DSA-2605 asterisk - several issues
[16 Jan 2013] DSA-2609 rails - SQL query manipulation
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.