Debian “squeeze” Release Information
Debian 6.0.10 was released on July 19th, 2014. Debian 6.0.0 was initially released on February 6th, 2011. The release included many major changes, described in our press release and the Release Notes.
Debian 6 has been superseded by
Debian 7 (wheezy
).
Security updates have been discontinued as of May 31st, 2014.
Squeeze had benefited from Long Term Support (LTS) until the end of February 2016. The LTS was limited to i386 and amd64. For more information, please refer to the LTS section of Debian Wiki.
To obtain and install Debian, see the installation information page and the Installation Guide. To upgrade from an older Debian release, see the instructions in the Release Notes.
The following computer architectures are supported in this release:
- 32-bit PC (i386)
- 64-bit PC (amd64)
- EABI ARM (armel)
- PowerPC
- SPARC
- Intel Itanium IA-64
- MIPS (little endian)
- kFreeBSD 64-bit PC (amd64)
- kFreeBSD 32-bit PC (i386)
- IBM S/390
- MIPS (big endian)
Contrary to our wishes, there may be some problems that exist in the release, even though it is declared stable. We've made a list of the major known problems, and you can always report other issues to us.