Released the new version of Debian 10 "Buster" and these are its news

Debian10

After two years of development, the new stable version of Debian 10 was finally released. (Buster), which It is available for ten architectures: Intel IA-32 / x86 (i686), AMD64 / x86-64, ARM EABI (Armel), 64-bit ARM (arm64), ARMv7 (armhf), MIPS (mips, mipsel, mips64el), PowerPC 64 (ppc64el) e IBM System z (s390x).

The repository contains 57703 binary packages, which is roughly 6 thousand more than suggested in Debian 9. Compared to Debian 9, 13,370 new binary packages were added, 7,278 (13%) obsolete or abandoned packages were removed, 35,532 packages (62%) were updated.

For 91,5% of packages, support is provided for repeated assemblies, which allow to confirm that the executable file is assembled from the established source code and does not contain extraneous changes, the replacement of which, for example, can be done by attacking the infrastructure of compilation or bookmarks in the compiler.

Debian 10 Main New Features

In this new version of the distribution It stands out because it will be supported 5 years of updates, in addition to the fact that the Gnome desktop is translated by default to use Wayland and an X server based session is offered as an option (X server is still included in the number of packages included in the base package).

As well support for UEFI Secure Boot has been implemented, for whose operation the wedge loader is used, certified by a Microsoft digital signature (shim-signed), together with the kernel certification and the grub loader (grub-efi-amd64-signed) with its own project certificate ( shim acts as an intermediate layer for use by distributing your own keys).

The shim and grub-efi-ARCH signed packages are included in the build dependencies for amd64, i386, and arm64. The loader and grub, certified by a working certificate, are included in the EFI images for amd64, i386 and arm64.

On the other hand in the distribution was enabled by default, AppArmor's mandatory access control system, allowing you to control the permissions of processes by defining lists of files with the appropriate permissions (read, write, memory allocation and start, set a lock on a file, etc.) for each application, as well as control network access (for example, prohibit the use of ICMP) and manage POSIX capabilities.

In cryptsetup, a transition was made to the LUKS2 disk encryption format (previously used by LUKS1). LUKS2 features a simplified key management system, the ability to use large sectors (4096 instead of 512, reduces load when decrypting), symbolic symbol identifiers (labels), and metadata backup tools with the ability to automatically restore them. of the copy in case of damage.

During the upgrade process, existing LUKS1 partitions will be automatically converted to a LUKS2-compatible format, but due to header size restrictions, not all new features will be available to them.

In Live environments, the independently developed Calamares modular installer began to be applied with the Qt-based interface, which is also used to organize the installation of the neon Manjaro, Sabayon, Chakra, NetRunner, KaOS, OpenMandriva and KDE distributions. In normal installation builds, the Debian installer is still used.

In addition to what was previously available, a Live environment was created with the LXQt desktop and the Live environment without a graphical interface, only with the console utilities that make up the base system.

The Live environment of the console can be used to install a distribution package very quickly, since, unlike traditional installation images, the already cut directory is copied, without revealing individual packages using dpkg.

The installer added the ability to use multiple consoles simultaneously in the installation process. ReiserFS support has been removed.

As for the software that was updated, we can find the graphical stack and the user environments: Gnome 3.30, KDE Plasma 5.14, Cinnamon 3.8, LXDE 0.99.2, LXQt 0.14, MATE 1.20 and Xfce 4.12. The Office LibreOffice package has been updated to version 6.1 and Calligra to version 3.1. Updated Evolution 3.30, GIMP 2.10.8, Inkscape 0.92.4, Vim 8.1

The distribution includes a compiler for the Rust language (supplied by Rustc 1.34). Updated GCC 8.3, LLVM / Clang 7.0.1, OpenJDK 11, Perl 5.28, PHP 7.3, Python 3.7.2.

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  1.   Nachete Page said

    Hello to everyone s.

    Some time ago I commented in a post about the flaws and drawbacks that Linux has with respect to hardware.

    I am a daily Linux user (in my case Lubuntu x64) for office automation, web programming and (in the future) image and video editing with Gimp, Kdenlive or Olive,

    I would like to make a request: since Apple bases its system on a specific hardware, it would be of great help, for those of us who want our own workstation without Windows, to create a post about processors, boards, ram, hdd and sources that better get along or that offer guarantees to work without problems.

    To give examples: the best mikes are i3 / i5 of 6 gen or amd ax; the best motherboards asus or gigabyte models a, b or c. Memories a, b, c from 8 gb ... etc ...

    I see tutorials on youtube with linux that their computers are very fluid, even when editing video. That is why my request, to have an idea if we want to build our own machine.

    I think it would be of great help to the community if we want to give Linux a definitive push or not have to be scared every 2 by 3 when our beloved Windows performs "friendly" maneuvers a priori for free software but with "Machiavellian" intentions a priori for eat it all.

    Greetings and thanks to everyone.

    1.    Autopilot said

      What you are asking for is called certification. Companies like SuSE and RedHat have their application certification program and Dell offers certified Ubuntu for their hardware.

      On the other hand, there are several hardware compatibility lists (HCLs) from distributions or vendors, to name a few: linux-drivers.org.
      In stores, many peripherals have had the penguin in their box for a decade.

      A greeting.