Debian 11 Bullseye

Debian Linux

Brand new stable release of Debian Linux, Debian 11 codenamed Bullseye just got released. It’s a major release that took slightly over 2 years of development.

This release is available for 9 architectures, think it even works on recent Raspberry Pi systems - will be cool to try is for my home server.

All the usual desktop environments are included and updated:

• Gnome 3.38
• KDE Plasma 5.20
• LXDE 11
• LXQt 0.16
• MATE 1.24
• Xfce 4.16

Debian 11 is a Long Term Release

Debian 11 Features

• Linux Kernel 5.10
• there’s now an open command (sounds very similar to such a command in macOS) for opening a specified file with the default association
• SystemD supports cgroups v2 now (unified hierarchy), but cgroups v1 is still available
• over 70% of packages from previous major release have been updated

Notable Improvements

• exFAT is now supported natively, meaning you no longer have to use FUSE approach (exfat-fuse package)
• Most printers and scanners are now accessible and fully usable without any drivers (ipp-usb package)

See Also

• Debian Buster
• Debian Linux
• Linux Kernel
• Debian Linux 10.3 released
• Linux Kernel 5.5
• Compiling exFAT-FUSE for RHEL 8