DebianLenny

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Lenny is the code name for a former DebianStable distribution. It was released on Feb 15th, 2009 as Debian GNU/Linux 5.0. It was superseded by Debian/Squeeze on Feb 06th 2011. It has been archived and no longer receives security updates.

Security updates are not provided anymore.

http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/ - Debian/Lenny release information

Contents

Debian/Lenny Life cycle
1. Before the release
2. Release and updates
Architectures
New Features
1. Packages & versions
FAQ
1. links
2. See also

Debian/Lenny Life cycle

Before the release

2006-11-16 : Distribution codename announced
2008-07-27 : freeze of Debian testing, see announcement

Release and updates

2009-02-15 : Initial release : 5.0.0 (press release).
2009-04-11 : Updated (5.0.1) (preparation; press release).
2009-06-27 : Updated (5.0.2) (press release).
2009-09-05 : Updated (5.0.3) (press release).
2010-01-30 : Updated (5.0.4) (press release).
2010-06-26 : Updated (5.0.5) (press release).
2010-09-04 : Updated (5.0.6) (press release).
2010-11-27 : Updated (5.0.7) (press release).
2011-01-22 : Updated (5.0.8) (press release).
2011-02-06 : Lenny becomes old-stable. (i.e A new stable is released: Debian Squeeze)
2011-10-01 : Updated (5.0.9) (press release).
2012-02-06 : End of security updates / End of life. (post).
2012-03-10 : Updated (5.0.10) (press release).

See Lenny point-releases ChangeLog.

Architectures

New ARM EABI port, "armel"
Lenny is officially supported on the following architectures : alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc. (see Lenny's release page, criteria, and status).

The ARM port is deprecated
(see http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214)

New Features

Packages & versions

apt 0.7.20
kernel : linux 2.6.26
libc : libc6 2.7
gcc : 4:4.3.2
X-server : Xorg 7.3
FHS 2.3
LSB 3.2

FAQ

Many answers can be found in the 5.0.0 press release or in the Release Information. and the errata.

Q) I couldn't upload my server in time, how do I nevertheless install and manage existing packages?

Use the following in your sources.list:

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free