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
[09 Aug 2013] Debian invites you to its 20th birthday
[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
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
[24 Sep 2013] DSA-2763 pyopenssl - hostname check bypassing
[23 Sep 2013] DSA-2762 icedove - several vulnerabilities
[19 Sep 2013] DSA-2761 puppet - several vulnerabilities
[18 Sep 2013] DSA-2760 chrony - several vulnerabilities
[18 Sep 2013] DSA-2759 iceweasel - several vulnerabilities
[17 Sep 2013] DSA-2758 python-django - denial of service
[14 Sep 2013] DSA-2757 wordpress - several vulnerabilities
[13 Sep 2013] DSA-2756 wireshark - several vulnerabilities
[13 Sep 2013] DSA-2753 mediawiki - information leak
[11 Sep 2013] DSA-2755 python-django - directory traversal
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.