If not every week, then every month there is at least one release of a Linux-based distribution. But, of all of them, few are as important as the one that has taken place today. Although they are still working to get everything in place, Project Debian announced today the launch of Debian 12, which has the code name "Bookworm". I'm not a big fan of Toy Story, where Debian chooses the codenames, so I can say little or nothing about this character.
Something else I can say about Debian 12. To begin with, like all Debian versions it will be supported for 5 years. To continue, they have introduced a new archive area so that it is possible to separate non-free firmware from other non-free packages: the area is non-free-firmware. This area makes it easier to manage this type of software thanks to a new repository and installer integration.
Debian 12 will be supported for 5 years
Among the rest of the news, Debian 12 uses Linux 6.1, and the available desks have been upgraded to the versions GNOME 43, plasma 5.27, LXDE 11, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, Cinnamon 5.6 y Xfce 4.18. Although there are younger desktops than others, in no case is anything used that is not perfectly tested and with several maintenance updates already. It is part of the Debian philosophy.
In this version re-introduced Secure Boot for ARM64, and among its packages we have:
- Apache 2.4.57
- BIND DNSServer 9.18
- Crypt setup 2.6
- Dovecott MTA 2.3.19
- Emacs 28.2
- Exim (default email server) 4.96
- GIMP 2.10.34
- GNU Compiler Collection 12.2
- GnuPG 2.2.40
- Inkscape 1.2.2
- The GNU C Library 2.36
- lighthttpd 1.4.69
- LibreOffice 7.4
- Linux kernel 6.1 series
- LLVM/Clang toolchain 13.0.1, 14.0 (default), and 15.0.6
- MariaDB 10.11
- nginx 1.22
- Open JDK 17
- OpenLDAP 2.5.13
- OpenSSH 9.2p1
- Perl 5.36
- PHP 8.2
- Postfix MTA 3.7
- PostgreSQL 15
- Python 3, 3.11.2
- rustc 1.63
- Samba 4.17
- systemd 252
- I came 9.0
Unlike most distributions, Debian 12 is still available for 32-bit processors (i386). The full list of supported architectures is completed by 64-bit (amd64), 64-bit ARM (arm64), ARM EABI (armel), ARMv7 (EABI hard-float ABI, armhf), little-endian MIPS (mipsel), 64 -bit little-endian MIPS (mips64el), 64-bit little-endian PowerPC (ppc64el), IBM System z (s390x). The aforementioned i386 version no longer supports any i586 processor, with the recommended minimum being an i686.
To test the operating system without installing it, you can use the Live Images, available at this link. These images also allow you to install the operating system with the chosen desktop. If you prefer to use the “netinstaller”, you can follow our guide to this end.
But is it ready to update? On the web, when clicking on "download", it offers version 11
but dude you don't say how to upgrade from debian 11 to 12, of course man, this is incomplete.
It is already here, it has already arrived. I had ubuntu for many years, then mint by type of architecture, which led me to Debian, and after installing Debian 11 (tremendously stable), I upgraded to Debian 12, and it's wonderful. In the end, what I want is that robust stability, since in the time I've used Debian 11 I haven't had any problems. Congratulations and very grateful for the release. All the best.
One correction: There is also the Cinnamon desktop