How to install Debian 10 buster on VirtualBox VM
On July 6th, 2019, Debian project has announced another update of their Linux OS i.e Debian 10 buster which going to be supported for the next 5 year. The Linux distribution codenamed is "buster ". Let, how to install Debian 10 buster guest on VirtualBox Virtaul machine. Debian 10 buster will come with more package updates which 62 percent more than the previous release. Debian 10 buster now offers multiple desktop environments such as Cinnamon 3.8, GNOME 3.30, KDE Plasma 5.14, LXDE 0.99.2, LXQt 0.14, MATE 1.20, and Xfce 4.12. The architecture it can support are: 32-bit PC (i386) and 64-bit PC (amd64); 64-bit ARM (arm64); ARM EABI (armel), ARMv7 (EABI hard-float ABI, armhf), MIPS (mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian)), 64-bit little-endian MIPS (mips64el), 64-bit little-endian PowerPC (ppc64el) and IBM System z (s390x). Furthermore, other major updates or additions are as follow: It has UEFI Secure Boot along with AppArmor enabled per default; Optional hardening of APT in case requires; Unattended-upgrades for stable point releases; Substantially improved man pages for German-speaking users; Now Network filtering based on nftables framework by default; Cryptsetup defaults to on-disk LUKS2 format, driverless printing with CUPS 2.2.10. Other inclusions are basic support for Allwinner A64 based devices, LXQt live ISOs as a new flavour; introduction of Debian Med Packages for medical research purposes; GNOME defaults to using the Wayland instead of Xorg and Merged /usr on fresh installs. To know more about the latest launch sees the official announcement. Here we will see the tutorial to install Debian 10 buster latest addition on VirtualBox VM running on Windows, Linux or MacOS. In order to test/experience it. Know command to upgrade Debian 9 Stretch to 10 Buster using command terminal
Step 1: Download Debian 10 buster ISO image
The first thing we need is the bootable ISO image of the latest launched Debian 10 buster. Debian 10 is available in Small ISO image with a size of 334 MB only which is quick and easy to download and burn on CD or USB stick. However, for this installation, you may need an internet connection to download other packages and to set up an APT package manager. Other is complete full DVD image with comes with all packages size around 4.4 GB and doesn't need internet connection o install. Here we are using the DVD ISO image but you can download Small image too if you don't have time to download Full blown ISO image. The installation steps will be the same for both. Link to the Download page.
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