Named for "Mr Potato Head" in the Toy Story movies. This release added support for the PowerPC and ARM architectures. With Wichert still serving as Project Leader, this release consisted of more than 3900 binary packages derived from over 2600 source packages maintained by more than 450 Debian developers.
Named for the slinky-dog in the movie. Two more architectures were added, Alpha and SPARC. With Wichert Akkerman as Project Leader, this release consisted of about 2250 packages and required 2 CDs in the official set. The key technical innovation was the introduction of apt, a new package management interface. Widely emulated, apt addressed issues resulting from Debian's continuing growth, and established a new paradigm for package acquisition and installation on Open Source operating systems.
Named for the piggy-bank in the Toy Story movies. This was the first multi-architecture release of Debian, adding support for the Motorola 68000 series architectures. With Ian Jackson as Project Leader, this release made the transition to libc6, and consisted of over 1500 packages maintained by over 400 developers.
Named for Bo Peep, the shepherdess. This release consisted of 974 packages maintained by 200 developers.
Named for the plastic dinosaur in the Toy Story movies. This release consisted of 848 packages maintained by 120 developers
This was the first Debian release with a code name. It was taken, like all others so far, from a character in one of the Toy Story movies... in this case, Buzz Lightyear. By this time, Bruce Perens had taken over leadership of the Project from Ian Murdock, and Bruce was working at Pixar, the company that produced the movies. This release was fully ELF, used Linux kernel 2.0, and contained 474 packages.
dselect appears. This was the last Debian release using the a.out binary format; there were about 60 developers. The first master.debian.org server was built by Bdale Garbee and hosted by HP in parallel with the 0.93R6 release. The deployment of an explicit master server on which Debian developers would construct each release led directly to the formation of the Debian mirror network, and indirectly to the development of many of the policies and procedures used to manage the project today.
Responsibility for each package was clearly assigned to a developer by this point, and the package manager (dpkg) was used to install packages after the installation of a base system.
This release had a simple package system which could install and uninstall packages. The project had grown to several dozen people at this point.
We are pleased to announce the latest NST release - NST 44 SVN:15105. Based on Fedora 44 and powered by Linux Kernel 7.0.10, this version brings the NST distribution completely on par with Fedora 44. This release delivers major enhancements to the NST WUI. Below is a summary of the key feature improvements included in this release. All NST Shell Console output windows have been enhanced for the discovery of IPv4/IPv6 addresses, host names, MAC addresses and bluetooth adresses. Once identified, these network entities can be populated to their corresponding Tools widget. For example, the image below demonstrates how IPv6 addresses are discovered from the results of running the IP network utility within the NST Shell Console. The located IPv6 addresses are then populated to the IPv6 Address Tools widget as shown. To activate this feature, click on a network entity icon located in the lower-right side of the NST Shell Console Editor.