Debian 12 RC1: Now available to everyone, Debian Bookworm!

When it comes to Distro GNU/Linux, one of the most important mother Distros or bases or benchmarks in the field, without a doubt, is Debian GNU / Linux. For this reason, both on DesdeLinux and on any other similar news website on Free Software, Open Source and GNU/Linux, we tend to address in a timely manner and with sufficient frequency, everything that the Debian Development team and its Community brings us back to such a wonderful, stable and functional Distribution.

And, given that, on the third (03) of this month (April), it has officially announced the availability of a testing ISO, that is, an ISO on «Debian 12 RC1», because we will take the opportunity to address the news that we can already expect for the future Debian 12 “Bookworm” stable.

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Debian 12 RC1: First Debian Test ISO Bookworm

What's new in Debian 12 RC1

The Debian GNU/Linux community, after intense work with the development of Debian 12 “Bookworm” finally, ha officially announced the availability of the first release candidate (RC1) of the ISO (Installer) of such a great free and open Operating System. And for those who download and try You will notice the following news:

Regarding the Operating System

The inclusion of free firmware packages and not free, and its metadata to configure the installed system, with the aim of achieving the detection and configuration from the beginning of proprietary hardware, if necessary and chosen by the user.
Automatic installation of the “amd64-microcode” and “intel-microcode” packages, in case, during the installation, the command command "/ proc / cpuinfo" returns a correct value for the field "vendor_id", for example, "AuthenticAMD" for AMD-based CPUs or "GenuineIntel" for Intel-based CPUs. To achieve provide better support and additional features for the processor detected and in use.
Improvements for the localization scope: This version supports 78 languages and includes the tFull translation for 41 of them.

Regarding the programs

A good number of desktop environments available: Including KDE Plasma 5.27, GNOME 43.3, Cinnamon 5.6, and Xfce 4.18.
A robust set of system software: Among which some stand out as the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel, accompanied by systemd 252.6, GCC 12.2, and Binutils 2.40. Also, from X.Org Server 21.1, Wayland 1.21 and Mesa 22.3. And even the proprietary drivers for NVIDIA GPUs in version 525.89.
A modern set of user programs: Among which some stand out as, Firefox 102.9ESR, Thunderbird 102.9, LibreOffice 7.4.5, GIMP 2.10.34, Remmina 1.4.29 and VLC 3.0.18.
A great suite of programs for developers: Among which some stand out as, OpenJDK 17, Python 3.11, PHP 8.2, and Ruby 3.1. While, as for BAs data sources, those available are MariaDB 10.11, PostgreSQL 15, Redis 7.0, and SQLite 3.40.

More related information

And, for those who wish to be more up-to-date on Debian 12 "Bookworm" and the Debian Project and its news, remember that you can frequently explore the following links:

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Summary

In short, this first ISO test of "Debian 12 RC1" for the future version of Debian 12 “Bookworm” is undoubtedly a important milestone in the development cycle of the Debian operating system, since it gives us a general idea of what we can expect from the final version. In the meantime, it's probably time to wait a few more months, to see a next version of RC2, and to be able to inform everyone of the new changes again.

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