At the time of this writing, Debian Squeeze was still the “Testing” distribution, but now, while you are reading, it will be the new “Stable” version of Debian. This is also the reason for which we speak of “Debian Squeeze”, rather than “Debian 6.0”, since the version number is not used prior to its effective release.

You may note a few minor differences between what is written here and what you observe in practice, even though we have limited these discrepancies as much as possible.

The choice of Debian Squeeze is well justified based on the fact that any administrator concerned about the quality of their servers will naturally gravitate towards the stable version of Debian. Furthermore, this distribution introduces numerous interesting changes: support for the latest virtualization technologies (KVM), simplified PAM configuration, an improved installer supporting BTRFS, all bringing improvements that directly affect administrators.