Available in Debian 6

It took two years until the Debian distribution known to reach the current, sixth edition, which is now available to all concerned.

The Debian has always been a major ideological and ... "peismomenes' distributions, and this is the main reason why so much« release cycles »- that is, so much" time lag "between versions: All must be the closest possible to the designation of "perfect", and especially as he interpreted the term «open source» and license GPL.

Unlike other distributions, the Debian insists «open» and ideology, and so in this, at least, "the default, original version" - not found "closed" software. That is why one of the key features of the new version 6.0, a pseudonym «Squeeze», just published, is that even the core does not contain "closed» drivers for devices.

Probably also worth mentioning that in the absence of Debian, probably would not exist and the very famous, now, and highly successful Ubuntu, based on that - the Ubuntu, especially in the first step, was "a simplified tool for Debian and novice user.