Hands on  The Debian 11 is the venerable Debian Project's first new release in more than two years, nicknamed

Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different

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Hands on The Debian 11 is the venerable Debian Project's first new release in more than two years, nicknamed "Bullseye" after the Toy Story character and supplanting Debian 10 "Buster" (all Debian releases bear names from the kids' film).

Since Debian is the source from which dozens of other distros draw, notably Ubuntu, its major updates are well worth paying attention to, even if you aren't a Debian user. If you are a Debian user and you've been patiently waiting for an updated kernel to work with all the latest hardware, I have good news, the 5.10 LTS Linux kernel is here. More on that in a minute.

First, for the Linux newcomers, it might help to understand why Debian only releases new versions every couple of years when most popular distros crank out several new versions each year.

Debian is a huge, sprawling project and probably has more moving pieces than just about any other software project around. That's part of the reason Debian releases don't come along very often – it takes a long time to get that many ducks in a row.

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