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Monday 20 January 2014

Download Debian Linux 6 Squeeze ISO / CD / DVD Images

Debian GNU/Linux version 6.0 has been released ( jump to download ) after 24 months of constant development and available for download in various media format. 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". It also supports various processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, LXDE and other desktop environments. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB.

What's new in Debian 6.0

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. Following new updated major software packages are included:
KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications version 4.4.5
an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment version 2.30
the Xfce version 4.6 desktop environment
LXDE version 0.5.0
X.Org version 7.5
OpenOffice.org version 3.2.1
GIMP version 2.6.11
Iceweasel version 3.5.16 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)
Icedove version 3.0.11 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)
PostgreSQL version 8.4.6
MySQL version 5.1.49
GNU Compiler Collection version 4.4.5
Linux kernel version 2.6.32
Apache web server version 2.2.16
Samba file and print server version 3.5.6
Python version 2.6.6, 2.5.5 and 3.1.3
Perl version 5.10.1
PHP version 5.3.3
Asterisk version 1.6.2.9
Nagios version 3.2.3
Xen Hypervisor 4.0.1 (dom0 as well as domU support)
OpenJDK version 6b18
Tomcat version 6.0.18
And more than 29,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 15,000 source packages.

Debian 6 klik  Download

Debian provides all packages on CD / DVD and the total size is around 32GB+ for all media files. You only need to download first CD / DVD and install the base system. Once downloaded, use the Internet to install any packages.

Please note that the latest stable version is 6.0.4.
32 bit vs 64 bit Debian Linux Version
For almost all PCs use 32 bit version. For e.g., most machines with Intel/AMD type processors.
Choose 64 bit version to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2 duo).
Debian 6 DVD ISO download

There are total 8 DVD images:
Visit mirror to download Debian ISO image 32 bit i386 DVD ISO (4.4 GB each)
Visit mirror to download Debian ISO images 64 bit DVD ISO (4.4 GB each)

Download images from the following mirror:
Debian 6 DVD ISO BitTorrent download
Download from BitTorrent i386 32 bit DVD (requires a BitTorrent client)
Download from BitTorrent 64 bit DVD (requires a BitTorrent client)
Debian 6 Upgrade over the Internet
You can upgrade Debian 5.0 to 6.0 simply following these instructions.
Debian Linux 6 Download Mirrors list
Please see Debian mirror download and release page for further information.

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