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| Current Version: | 5.0.9 |
| Last Release Date: | Oct 3, 2011 |
| License Type: | GNU GPL |
| Open Source: | Yes |
| Crippleware: | No |
| $$ Upgrade Available: | No |
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Categories: Operating Systems
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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 18733 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
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Adam Nowacki discovered that the new FreeBSD NFS implementation
processes a crafted READDIR request which instructs to operate a file
system on a file node as if it were a directory node, leading to a
kernel crash or potentially arbitrary code execution.