Protest against software patents

Due to the directive validating Software Patents that will be voted on at the European Parliament, we have decided to protest.

Citizens whose nations are part of the European Parliament -- please sign the Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe.

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Getting Started

The latest stable release of Debian is 3.0r1. The last update to this release was made on December 16th, 2002. Read more about available versions of Debian.

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News

[11 Aug 2003] Debian celebrates its 10th Birthday
[28 Jul 2003] Successful Debian Conference in Oslo finished
[06 Jul 2003] Debian Project at several Conferences in Europe
[31 May 2003] Debian at Conferences in Austria and Brazil
[05 May 2003] Debian Project at Conferences in Italy and Austria
[14 Mar 2003] Debian Project at CeBIT and OOoCon

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Security Alerts

[21 Sep 2003] DSA-383 ssh-krb5 - possible remote vulnerability (new revision)
[21 Sep 2003] DSA-382 ssh - possible remote vulnerability (new revision)
[20 Sep 2003] DSA-389 ipmasq - insecure packet filtering rules
[19 Sep 2003] DSA-388 kdebase - several vulnerabilities
[18 Sep 2003] DSA-387 gopher - buffer overflows
[18 Sep 2003] DSA-386 libmailtools-perl - input validation bug
[18 Sep 2003] DSA-385 hztty - buffer overflows
[17 Sep 2003] DSA-384 sendmail - buffer overflows
[17 Sep 2003] DSA-383 ssh-krb5 - possible remote vulnerability
[16 Sep 2003] DSA-382 ssh - possible remote vulnerability
[13 Sep 2003] DSA-381 mysql - buffer overflow
[12 Sep 2003] DSA-380 xfree86 - buffer overflows, denial of service
[11 Sep 2003] DSA-379 sane-backends - several vulnerabilities

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