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Chapter 14

Changes expected in the next major

release of Debian

14.1 Increased security

Debian contains support for shadow passwords since release 1.3. In addition, the Linux

library of Pluggable Authentication Modules (a.k.a. libpam (

http://www.kernel.org/

pub/linux/libs/pam/

);) that allows sysadmins to choose authorization modes on an

application specific basis is available, and initially set to authenticate via shadow password.

Including full support for advanced authentication methods such as Kerberos, as well as ad 

ditional security enhancements for mandatory access control mechanisms such as SElinux,

RSBAC and buffer overflow protection like Exec shield or PaX is still in progress.

14.2 Extended support for non English users

Debian already has very good support for non English users, see `How does Debian support

non English languages?' on page

15

.

We hope to find people who will provide support for even more languages, and translate.

Some programs already support internationalization, so we need message catalogs translators.

Many programs still remain to be properly internationalized.

The GNU Translation Project

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ABOUT NLS

works on inter 

nationalizing the GNU programs.

14.3 More architectures

Complete Debian system on other architectures such as AMD64 or SuperH is expected soon.

Notice that, for AMD64 there is a development archive at

http://amd64.debian.net/