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Debian 8 Jessie released available for download

Posted on  4/26/2015
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After almost a year of development and testing process Debian team releases its Debian 8.0 codename “jessie” , this version will be supported for the next five years . one of the major changes of this version is “systemd ” as default init system . UEFI ( “Unified Extensible Firmware Interface” ) support is improved .

Whats new

  • Linux 3.16.7-ctk9
  • Apache 2.4.10
  • Asterisk 11.13.1
  • GIMP 2.8.14
  • GNOME desktop environment 3.14
  • GNU Compiler Collection 4.9.2
  • KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.11.13
  • LibreOffice 4.3.3
  • MariaDB 10.0.16 and MySQL 5.5.42
  • Nagios 3.5.1
  • OpenJDK 7u75
  • Perl 5.20.2
  • PHP 5.6.7
  • PostgreSQL 9.4.1
  • Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2
  • Samba 4.1.17
  • Tomcat 7.0.56 and 8.0.14
  • Xen Hypervisor 4.4.1
  • Xfce 4.10 desktop environment

How to upgrade

just simply update and dist-upgrade

$ sudo apt-get update 
$ apt-get dist-upgrade 

for more upgrading related documentation read https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html

useful Links

  1. http://debian.org
  2. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/

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