A total of eleven architectures are supported including: Sun SPARC (sparc), HP Alpha (alpha), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Intel IA-32 (i386) and IA-64 (ia64), HP PA-RISC (hppa), MIPS (mips, mipsel), ARM (arm), IBM S/390 (s390) and – newly introduced with Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 – AMD64 and Intel EM64T (amd64).
New features include :
- Linux kernel version 2.6.18
- GNOME 2.14
- Xfce 4.4
- OpenOffice.org 2.0.4a
- Evolution 2.6.3
- the GNU C library, version 2.3.6
- the GNU Compiler Collection 4.1 as default compiler
- language interpreters: Python 2.4, PHP 5.2
- web servers: Apache 2.2, fnord 1.10
- database servers: MySQL 5.0.32, PostgreSQL 8.1
Release Notes
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released
Distrowatch entry : Debian
OSNews : Debian 4.0 released
Debian 4.0 (etch) review
