Debian 8 “Jessie” Images Available for VirtualBox and VMware
Debian team announced the latest version of their operating system: “After almost 24 months of constant development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 8 (code name ‘Jessie’), which will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and of the Debian Long Term Support team. ‘Jessie’ ships with a new default init system, systemd. The systemd suite provides many exciting features such as faster boot times, cgroups for services, and the possibility of isolating part of the services. The sysvinit init system is still available in ‘Jessie’.
This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as: Apache 2.4.10, Asterisk 11.13.1, GIMP 2.8.14, an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.14, GNU Compiler Collection 4.9.2, Icedove 31.6.0 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird), Iceweasel 31.6.0esr (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox), KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.11.13, LibreOffice 4.3.3, Linux 3.16.7-ckt9, MariaDB 10.0.16 and MySQL 5.5.42, Nagios 3.5.1, OpenJDK 7u75, Perl 5.20.2, PHP 5.6.7, PostgreSQL 9.4.1, Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2, Samba 4.1.17, Tomcat 7.0.56 and 8.0.14, Xen Hypervisor 4.4.1, the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment, and more than 43,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 20,100 source packages.” You can read complete announcement here.
We are providing you virtual images for latest version of ‘Debian 8 Jessie’ for VirtualBox and VMware.
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