Debian -- News -- Debian 10 "buster" released

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July 6th, 2019After 25 months of development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 10 (code name buster), 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.Debian 10 buster ships with several desktop applications and environments. Amongst others it now includes the desktop environments:Cinnamon 3.8,GNOME 3.30,KDE Plasma 5.14,LXDE 0.99.2,LXQt 0.14,MATE 1.20,Xfce 4.12.In this release, GNOME defaults to using the Wayland display server instead of Xorg. Wayland has a simpler and more modern design, which has advantages for security. However, the Xorg display server is still installed by default and the default display manager allows users to choose Xorg as the display server for their next session.Thanks to the Reproducible Builds project, over 91% of the source packages included in Debian 10 will build bit-for-bit identical binary packages. This is an important verification…