Debian 10 Buster a few words about the latest stable release

Debian 10 Buster: Debian is one of my preferred distributions, for many and varied reasons that I have mentioned from time to time. It is developed by an all-volunteer organization dedicated to the development of free and in promoting the ideals of the Free Software community.

Debian is one of the oldest Linux distributions in the world and, in terms of the number of developers involved, is one of the largest communities. About 1.300 partners worked on Debian 10, which was released on July 6.

Debian 10 Buster

Debian 10 Buster offers packet upgrades across the operating system, but the main changes to this release include turning AppArmor on by default and using Shell GNOME in Wayland.

GNOME running with X.Org is σαν μια εναλλακτική μέθοδο λειτουργίας της επιφάνειας εργασίας. Η ανακοίνωση της έκδοσης αναφέρει επίσης ότι τα nftables μπορούν να χρησιμοποιηθούν για τη διαχείριση ενός τείχους προστασίας του λειτουργικού συστήματος και ότι η λειτουργία Secure Boot είναι ενεργοποιημένη για ορισμένες μόνο αρχιτεκτονικές. Αυτή η έκδοση του Debian θα έχει συνολικά πέντε χρόνια υποστήριξης, χάρη στην ομάδα μακροπρόθεσμης υποστήριξης (long-term team).

The new Debian release, codenamed “Buster”, runs on many processor architectures and is available in net-install, full installation DVD and seven live publications. This gives users a lot of setup options.

Although not mentioned in the distribution announcement, Debian's installation tools do not include non-free firmware that is often required to connect to wireless networks. So, for those of you who are thinking of trying to distribute, you need to install the firmware needed to have wireless networking. Of course, there is an informal live ISO with non-free firmware.

Debian has gained a reputation for the stability of its distribution but the very good returns.

It starts fast, and GNOME has a relatively small footprint on the disk and the memory it uses. The software that it has by default is trusted, making Debian a very reliable desktop and server operating system.

Debian runs on many hardware architectures, offers many desktop options and provides a huge volume of software packages. It can work with portable packet formats, many kernel types and is small enough to work in many different environments. It is surprisingly versatile.

There are some negative consequences for Balancing the stability and flexibility of Debian. One is that Stable Channel packages are often too old compared to the same software in other distributions. Almost every package is at least six months in circulation, while some are a year old. So for those who want to run the latest software running, stable versions of Debian are not ideal.

For me, Debian does not offer modern design. Some distributions are particularly focused on the UI design, but Debian seems to do the opposite, but it offers many choices of packages and tools to design the UI you want on your own.

We can describe the difference as if you have a new car model and a Lego car. The first one has a clear plan, while the second lets you play.

In short, I am very happy with Debian 10 Buster, having been using it since it was on testing. It has some issues with the GNOME software and the lack of non-free firmware.

Or, more specifically, the non-free firmware is hidden and should be added to sources.list.

However, performance, software, support for too many architectural CPUs and low resource usage make this release very good.

I could not recommend Debian to a new Linux user because the system needs manual intervention to work. Moderate and experienced Linux users will be very pleased.

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