Debian 10.1 Buster
Nov 19, 2019
4 minutes
IN BRIEF
One of the best-established Linux distros and a jack of all trades, but is it the master?
SPECS
Minimum
CPU: Intel or AMD 32- & 64-bit, Arm, MIPS and S390 architectures.
Mem: 256MB (desktop)
HDD: 2GB (desktop)
Debian has a reputation, somewhat deserved but no longer so accurate, of being way out of date in terms of software versions. A few years ago it had a huge gap in its release cycle, but things are much better these days.
No, you won’t get the latest versions in the stable version, but that’s not what it is about. The main Debian tree is called stable for a reason: it remains relatively static rather than always chasing the latest versions. That makes administering a
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