Re: Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released
Le dimanche 06 février 2011 à 03:02 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Squeeze is out!
Congratulations!
> The bits worth noting for us is
>
> - sounds events enabled by default in gdm so you know when you're at the
> login prompt
gdm or gdm3? I guess gdm3 (I assume we need to be installed instead of gdm when dist-upgrade from lenny). Is it necessary to enable this by hand when we dist-upgrade from lenny? If yes, how do this? Interesting feature if beeps of the speaker (PC) don't work well on Gnome environments (I know one user knew this).
> - accessibility enabled by default in gdm and the first user when
> installing with brltty or speakup enabled.
Is documented on the wiki how to enable this by hand when dist-upgrade from lenny? Or installing gdm3 instead of gdm does this automatically?
If no, I had known this command to enable in gdm3 orca when dist-upgrade:
su -s /bin/sh -c "gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/gnome/applications/at/screen_reader_enabled true" Debian-gdm
>
> Samuel
>
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> From: Meike Reichle <meike@debian.org>
> To: debian-announce@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released
> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 02:20:39 +0100
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> The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/
> Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released press@debian.org
> February 5th, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205a
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>
> Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released
>
> After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to
> present its new stable version 6.0 (code name "Squeeze"). Debian 6.0 is
> a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours.
> Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this
> version as a "technology preview".
>
> Debian 6.0 includes the KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, the GNOME,
> Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments as well as all kinds of server
> applications. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and
> software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB.
>
> Debian runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to
> supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of nine
> architectures are supported by Debian GNU/Linux: 32-bit PC / Intel
> IA-32 (i386), 64-bit PC / Intel EM64T / x86-64 (amd64), Motorola/IBM
> PowerPC (powerpc), Sun/Oracle SPARC (sparc), MIPS (mips (big-endian)
> and mipsel (little-endian)), Intel Itanium (ia64), IBM S/390 (s390),
> and ARM EABI (armel).
>
> Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" introduces technical previews of two new ports to
> the kernel of the FreeBSD project using the known Debian/GNU userland:
> Debian GNU/kFreeBSD for the 32-bit PC (kfreebsd-i386) and the 64-bit PC
> (kfreebsd-amd64). These ports are the first ones ever to be included in
> a Debian release which are not based on the Linux kernel. The support
> of common server software is strong and combines the existing features
> of Linux-based Debian versions with the unique features known from the
> BSD world. However, for this release these new ports are limited; for
> example, some advanced desktop features are not yet supported.
>
> Another first is the completely free Linux kernel, which no longer
> contains problematic firmware files. These were split out into separate
> packages and moved out of the Debian main archive into the non-free
> area of our archive, which is not enabled by default. In this way
> Debian users have the possibility of running a completely free
> operating system, but may still choose to use non-free firmware files
> if necessary. Firmware files needed during installation may be loaded
> by the installation system; special CD images and tarballs for USB
> based installations are available too. More information about this may
> be found in the Debian Firmware wiki page.
>
> 1: http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware
>
> Furthermore, Debian 6.0 introduces a dependency based boot system,
> making system start-up faster and more robust due to parallel execution
> of boot scripts and correct dependency tracking between them. Various
> other changes make Debian more suitable for small form factor
> notebooks, like the introduction of the KDE Plasma Netbook shell.
>
> This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as:
>
> * KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.4.5
> * an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.30
> * the Xfce 4.6 desktop environment
> * LXDE 0.5.0
> * X.Org 7.5
> * OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
> * GIMP 2.6.11
> * Iceweasel 3.5.16 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)
> * Icedove 3.0.11 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)
> * PostgreSQL 8.4.6
> * MySQL 5.1.49
> * GNU Compiler Collection 4.4.5
> * Linux 2.6.32
> * Apache 2.2.16
> * Samba 3.5.6
> * Python 2.6.6, 2.5.5 and 3.1.3
> * Perl 5.10.1
> * PHP 5.3.3
> * Asterisk 1.6.2.9
> * Nagios 3.2.3
> * Xen Hypervisor 4.0.1 (dom0 as well as domU support)
> * OpenJDK 6b18
> * Tomcat 6.0.18
> * more than 29,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from
> nearly 15,000 source packages.
>
> Debian 6.0 includes over 10,000 new packages like the browser Chromium,
> the monitoring solution Icinga, the package management frontend
> Software Center, the network manager wicd, the Linux container tools
> lxc and the cluster framework Corosync.
>
> With this broad selection of packages, Debian once again stays true to
> its goal of being the universal operating system. It is suitable for
> many different use cases: from desktop systems to netbooks; from
> development servers to cluster systems; and for database, web or
> storage servers. At the same time, additional quality assurance efforts
> like automatic installation and upgrade tests for all packages in
> Debian's archive ensure that Debian 6.0 fulfils the high expectations
> that users have of a stable Debian release. It is rock solid and
> rigorously tested.
>
>
> Starting from Debian 6.0, the "Custom Debian Distributions" are renamed
> to "Debian Pure Blends" [2]. Their coverage has increased as Debian 6.0
> adds >Debian Accessibility [3], DebiChem [4], Debian EzGo [5], Debian
> GIS [6] and Debian Multimedia [7] to the already existing Debian Edu
> [8], Debian Med [9] and Debian Science [10] "pure blends". The full
> content of all the blends can be browsed [11], including prospective
> packages that users are welcome to nominate for addition to the next
> release.
>
> 2: http://blends.alioth.debian.org/
> 3: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/
> 4: http://debichem.alioth.debian.org/
> 5: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEzGo
> 6: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis
> 7: http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/index
> 8: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu
> 9: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/
> 10: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience
> 11: http://blends.alioth.debian.org/
>
>
> Debian may be installed from various installation media such as Blu-ray
> Discs, DVDs, CDs and USB sticks or from the network. GNOME is the
> default desktop environment and is contained on the first CD. Other
> desktop environments — KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, Xfce,
> or LXDE — may be installed through two alternative CD images. The
> desired desktop environment may also be chosen from the boot menus of
> the CDs/DVDs. Again available with Debian 6.0 are multi-architecture
> CDs and DVDs which support installation of multiple architectures from
> a single disc. The creation of bootable USB installation media has
> also been greatly simplified; see the Installation Guide [12] for more
> details.
>
> 12: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/installmanual
>
> In addition to the regular installation media, Debian GNU/Linux may
> also be directly used without prior installation. The special images
> used, known as live images, are available for CDs, USB sticks and
> netboot setups. Initially, these are provided for the amd64 and i386
> architectures only. It is also possible to use these live images to
> install Debian GNU/Linux.
>
> The installation process for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 has been improved in
> various ways, including easier selection of language and keyboard
> settings, and partitioning of logical volumes, RAID and encrypted
> systems. Support has also been added for the ext4 and Btrfs filesystems
> and — on the kFreeBSD architecture — the Zettabyte
> filesystem (ZFS). The installation system for Debian GNU/Linux is now
> available in 70 languages.
>
> Debian installation images may be downloaded right now via BitTorrent
> [13] (the recommended method), jigdo [14] or HTTP [15]; see Debian on
> CDs [16] for further information. It will soon be available on
> physical DVD, CD-ROM and Blu-ray Discs from numerous vendors [17], too.
>
> 13: http://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/
> 14: http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#which
> 15: http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/
> 16: http://www.debian.org/CD/
> 17: http://www.debian.org/CD//vendors
>
> Upgrades to Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 from the previous release, Debian
> GNU/Linux 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny"), are automatically handled by the
> apt-get package management tool for most configurations, and to a
> certain degree also by the aptitude package management tool. As
> always, Debian GNU/Linux systems may be upgraded painlessly, in place,
> without any forced downtime, but it is strongly recommended to read the
> release notes [18] as well as the installation guide [19] for possible
> issues, and for detailed instructions on installing and upgrading. The
> release notes will be further improved and translated to additional
> languages in the weeks after the release.
>
> 18: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes
> 19: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/installmanual
>
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> from all over the world who collaborate via the Internet. The Debian
> project's key strengths are its volunteer base, its dedication to the
> Debian Social Contract and Free Software, and its commitment to provide
> the best operating system possible. Debian 6.0 is another important
> step in that direction.
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