Download Debian 3.1

An announcement has just appeared on the Debian homepage stating that the latest stable version is available for download. It concerns version 3.1 that has been given the code name Sarge. The new stable Debian succeeds the nearly three-year-old Woody. Debian developers have on this server the necessary files classified by system and put the downloads in the underlying folders. Sarge can be downloaded as iso images and can be tanked via BitTorrent and jigdo† Below you can read what the new features of 3.1 are, for a complete overview you can visit this page†

Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures, includes KDE, GNOME and GNUstep desktop environments, features cryptographic software, is compatible with the FHS v2.3, and supports software developed for the LSB.

With the development of the new debian-installer, this release features a new, modular and sophisticated installation routine with integrated hardware detection and unattended installation capabilities. The installation is available in about thirty languages ​​and includes configuration of the X server for many graphic cards.

This release includes a number of up-to-date large software packages, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.3 (KDE), the GNOME desktop environment 2.8, the GNUstep desktop, XFree86 4.3.0, GIMP 2.2.6, Mozilla 1.7.8 , Galeon 1.3.20, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, Firefox 1.0.4, PostgreSQL 7.4.7, MySQL 4.0.24 and 4.1.11a, GNU Compiler Collection 3.3.5 (GCC), Linux kernel versions 2.4.27 and 2.6. 8, Apache 1.3.33 and 2.0.54, Samba 3.0.14, Python 2.3.5 and 2.4.1, Perl 5.8.4 and much more.