Debian 6.0 Released

One of the oldest Linux distribution Debian Linux has just released another major update to it's product: Debian Linux 6.0. Developed for about 24 months (yes, you saw that right, 2 years), finally it has been released by the team on February 6 2011.

Debian 6.0 includes the KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, the GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments as well as all kinds of server applications. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB.

This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as:

* KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.4.5
* an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.30
* the Xfce 4.6 desktop environment
* LXDE 0.5.0
* X.Org 7.5
* OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
* GIMP 2.6.11
* Iceweasel 3.5.16 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)
* Icedove 3.0.11 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)
* PostgreSQL 8.4.6
* MySQL 5.1.49
* GNU Compiler Collection 4.4.5
* Linux 2.6.32
* Apache 2.2.16
* Samba 3.5.6
* Python 2.6.6, 2.5.5 and 3.1.3
* Perl 5.10.1
* PHP 5.3.3
* Asterisk 1.6.2.9
* Nagios 3.2.3
* Xen Hypervisor 4.0.1 (dom0 as well as domU support)
* OpenJDK 6b18
* Tomcat 6.0.18
* more than 29,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 15,000 source packages.

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Linux Popularity

Royal Pingdom has published their results of small research on Linux distribution popularity around the globe. Those distributions are Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Debian, Red Hat, Mandriva, Slackware and Gentoo. The results are quite amazing because Indonesia is listed in the top five of four of the distributions. Here's the brief observations:

• Ubuntu is most popular in Italy and Cuba.
• OpenSUSE is most popular in Russia and the Czech Republic.
• Red Hat is most popular in Bangladesh and Nepal.
• Debian is most popular in Cuba.
• Cuba is in the top five (interest-wise) of three of the eight distributions in this survey.
• Indonesia is in the top five of four of the distributions.
• Russia and the Czech Republic are in the top five of five of the distributions.
• The United States is not in the top five of any of the distributions.
  

Countries with highest interest in Ubuntu:

1. Italy
2. Cuba
3. Indonesia (Congrats to Ubuntu-ID)
   
4. Norway
5. Czech Republic
   

Countries with highest interest in OpenSUSE:

1. Russia
2. Czech Republic
3. Moldova
4. Germany
5. Indonesia (Vavai will love this)
   

Countries with highest interest in Fedora:

1. Sri Lanka
2. Bangladesh
3. India
4. Nepal
5. Zimbabwe
   

Countries with highest interest in Debian:

1. Cuba
2. Czech Republic
3. Germany
4. Belarus
5. Russia

Countries with highest interest in Red Hat:

1. Bangladesh
2. Nepal
3. Sri Lanka
4. India
5. Cuba

Countries with highest interest in Mandriva:

1. Russia
2. Czech Republic
3. Poland
4. France
5. Indonesia (tux from Indonesian Linux Forum will love this)
   

Countries with highest interest in Slackware:

1. Bulgaria
2. Indonesia (yeah, i love this)
   
3. Brazil
4. Russia
5. Poland

Countries with highest interest in Gentoo:

1. Russia
2. Czech Republic
3. Belarus
4. Moldova
5. Estonia

Where do they get this information? What else besides Google? It may not represent the true numbers, but at least we can see some statistics from Google.