Debian 13 trixie released with Linux kernel 6.12
Debian 13 trixie has been released following years of working, bringing lots of new software updates for the popular Linux distribution. Your choice of desktop environment with GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, LXDE 13, LXQt 2.1.0, and Xfce 4.20. Each with their own set of major changes and new features since the last releases available in Debian.
Quite an important release since it moves to use a 64-bit time_t ABI, supporting dates beyond 2038. It also gained HTTP Boot support, hardening against ROP and COP/JOP attacks on amd64 and arm64, and they’re making real progress towards reproducible builds of packages. Additionally, this release adds official support for Debian on riscv64 allowing you to run it on RISC-V hardware.
Debian 13 is supported fully until August 9th, 2028 – after that it moves to a separate LTS team until June 30th, 2030.
See more in the release announcement and release notes.
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It also powers many other Linux distributions like Ubuntu and so also Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Zorin and others.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
