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Debian Releases > Debian Lenny
The current DebianStable distribution was developed under the code name Lenny. It was released on Feb 15th, 2009 as Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, prior to which it was the DebianTesting distribution.
http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/ - Debian/Lenny release information
Debian/Lenny Life cycle
2008-09-17 : Announcement of D-I RC1 (debian-devel announcement)
2009-01-31 : Announcement of D-I RC2 (debian-devel announcement)
2009-02-15 : Initial released : 5.0.0 (press release).
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- ..
(No official life cycle announced yet. Previous stable were targeted to be released every 18 months, A distribution used to be discontinued 1 year after a new one is released... but things may change).
Architectures
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).
New Features
see Lenny press-realease, and NewInLenny.
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
links
Download CD : http://www.debian.org/CD/.
Package Repository : http://ftp.us.debian.org/dists/lenny/
- Installation :
Upgrade from Etch: Etch2LennyUpgrade
FAQ
Many answers can be fount in the 5.0.0 press release or in the Release Information. and the errata.
See also :
Debian stable - Lenny is the current stable distribution.
Debian Etch - The previous stable distribution.
Debian Squeeze - The next stable distribution.