Debian 3.1 has finally been released. It took over two years to get from Debian’s last release (Woody) to the current one. My experiences with Woody could be summed up as “stable, but really old”, so hopefully this new release will breathe some life back into the Debian user community.

Get it:
via ftp

Debian main site:
http://www.debian.org/

GNU software provides an equivalent to almost any Windows application but for people who’re new to GNU/Linux, figuring out what they have available to them can be tricky. Photoshop doesn’t exist on *nix systems and beginners are unlikely to expect something called ‘The Gimp.’

The following website keeps an updated chart of corresponding Posix - Windows software.

http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html