Greetings to all. I just received this news directly from the official Debian website that two days ago, the first Debian 7 update came out, with the code name "Wheezy", which contains bugfixes that involve several packages, among them are the NVIDIA Video drivers within the non-free channel of the Debian repos, the X.org graphics server, and some Libreoffice packages that had conflicts.
If you want to update your distro, just type in your terminal as root apt-get update y apt-get upgrade.
In my case, the update barely reached 50MB and was quite fast. Here is a screenshot of the screenfetch:
Good to know, thanks for the info!
You're welcome, buddy. Moreover, it is good to pass this type of news when there are users who do not suffer from versionitis but who do really care about the stability of their system.
Well yes, because in my case I do the «update | upgrade» very long in the long run, and when I do it normally nothing or almost nothing is updated, so it has been good for me to know when to update.
Well, I am always (or almost always) attentive to the news that Debian publishes both on its blog and in its news section, in addition to its security page.
I was going to start learning how to use Arch, but seeing as it is rolling release, its Achilles heel is its frequent update that does not go well with those who do not suffer from versionitis, as is my case. Anyway, I have delighted to fiddle with Slackware with KDE, which, apparently, has the friendliest console I have used so far (it puts you sayings, jokes, jokes, ... What more can I ask for that great console that has Slackware ?!).
Copied from - The Debian Administrator's Book. «To tell apt-get to use a specific distribution when looking for packages to upgrade you must use the -to –target-release option followed by the name of the desired distribution (for example: apt-get -t stable upgrade). »
apt-get update
apt-get -t wheezy upgrade
With the risk that someone who believes he owns the absolute truth will come to troll me, I will give my opinion. I think that the kernel used by an ordinary user should no longer use it, as it is very old, the new kernels are much faster (startup, shutdown, daily use, etc.) and updated, in addition to being sufficiently stable, I think using debian (with the 3.2 kernel, be careful) on a laptop is a waste of what the machine can offer, because using newer software you get a more powerful machine.
Another thing is the table driver, the improvements that the new versions bring is not something that would be good to sacrifice for stability (in a PC of a common mortal, in a workstation it is already different).
is that Debian is focused on workstations
The best for desktop and multimedia use is the liquorix kernel. I have tested it for a long time on debian and have not had any problems. It increases the responsiveness of the desktop in a very appreciable way. The repository is updated every 15 days.
and is that based on kernel 3.2?
It is usually the last current stable kernel. It also has an older kernel series based on the 3.4 series. Right now it's 3.9.6 For more info: http://liquorix.net/
Bitch please!
Add the non-free channel to the official repos and to the official debian backports, and you install the drivers and proprietary codecs you need. For anything else, you get it from the launchpad, albeit with great caution.
Look, I do not consider your previous comment as valid .. Keep in mind that Debian updates its packages in a similar way to how RHEL does .. So that you understand me in relation to Linux for example RHEL maintains a kernel version to which improvements are added of the later versions but keeping the same version of the kernel. Debian works in the same way but transferring the changes only to the LTS versions of the Linux kernels. As right now the latest version of the LTS kernel is the 3.4.x series, it does not make sense to move to the full kernel and only the new is used adding support for new hardware. The proof of this can be found in the Debian 7.1 release note in which features from the 3.4 kernel were imported.
Look here:
http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130615
but even so that kernel (3.4) is still very old, for example, the performance change (in a derivative of ubuntu that I had used) between kernel 3.5 and kernel 3.8 was a lot.
I find it interesting what debian does, adding new features to the stable, much better than I thought, although for me it would not be enough, but it is for a workstation.
Not so much so ..., most of the time there are also very large regressions.
Yes, but they are usually brief. Debian security repos seldom do these kinds of downgrades unless a compiler of hell has made a compilation bad enough to do such an act.
brief? I suffered from the problem with my intel hda audio for 3 kernels ..., 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 ..., if that's brief XD ....
@ pandev92:
No idea, because I don't have the PC with the latest processor. Also, I have an HP dc770 workstation that really works wonders for me.
I have hp pavilion dv6 2120es, and the biggest problem is that I was 3 kernels without being able to silence the speakers .., so the audio came out both through the speakers and through the headphones.
Now with the new pc that I bought, since kernel 3.8 I cannot start with the intel hd4000.
@ pandev92:
Yesterday my PC was silenced for using Ardor. Luckily, with "alsa unload" and "alsa reload" in the console in root mode and a reboot, the problem was solved.
@ pandev92 That seems more a problem with alsa and pulseaudio than with the Kernel, I say it because when I installed debian the same thing happened to me, on the desktop PC the audio did not come out, playing settings in alsa at the end it worked, and with the laptop I had the Audio problem by speaker and headphones at the same time, installing pulseaudio and your audio manager can separate it.
In my case, I wrote "alsa unload" and "alsa-reload" in the terminal, a restart and the sound returned (and I have the same Intel chipset that @ pandev92 has).
In that I agree with you, petercheco. In addition, in the past year Debian has once again been the most used distro in servers and the most used operating system in these types of machines.
For a common user the best is Debian Testing, the 3.9 kernel will be about to enter
Yes, well. Also, you don't complain about having your dependencies so "out of date".
I have an HP PC that is made especially for offices (in other words, a workstation) that is a bit old, but itself has a respectable processing speed (obviously because of the Intel chipset it has). In addition, I have added the official and security repos that Debian has, so with a few dependencies I would make it ready to install and play with Steam.
Well, do something simple, change to testing or SID and that's it: 3
Well said.
Precisely the performance of the kernel is the opposite of what you mention. As versions change, it becomes tedious, (and this is accepted by Linus himself). Changing versions does not always mean better performance (that the end user will know how to select, optimize and compile), but emphasis is placed on the support of new hardware, new options and security, without forgetting to continue patching very old versions (longterm), much more than the 3.2 that debian uses.
Just because it's heavier doesn't mean it doesn't improve performance.
the edo user spoke of speed and I confused it with performance, I should have used that word, sorry: P. The performance (for what it yields or is useful) has improved, but the downside is that the speed has dropped by 12% since its creation. That is the figure that I should have specified before, which Linus Torvalds himself accepted, greetings!
About kernel 3.2 you are right. I usually use stable but since I use aptosid (debian sid with brake and stabilizer!) I noticed that kernel 3.9 is a marvel and it takes a third of the time in boot and I do not know how much more in its closing (off) to an old amd 2.4 sempron and 400Mhz ram. BUT !!!
... if you put the debian-backports repos, you can update the kernel to the version that is obviously there; also with the video drivers -WATCH OUT! -
PS: to the fearful or who do not want problems (I think I am one of the) I recommend http://www.aptosid.org (I still have the debian stable in the other partition)
Nice screenfetch the one that looks like the terminal of your Debian Wheezy. How did you install it? Perhaps with a special repo? I use Debian Wheezy, stable, although it is said that it works just as well with the tests and I installed the update you mention yesterday. My kernel is 3.2.0-4-amd64, after this update. Regards.
$ wget http://served.kittykatt.us/projects/screenfetch/screenfetch-2.5.0.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i screenfetch-2.5.0.deb
$ screen fetch
I did not know that method. Thanks for the input.
Thanks for the contribution tmo, very kind. However I ask: Is there any other command so that "screenfetch" is fixed in the terminal without having to edit "screenfetch" each time so that the data appears? Thanks and best regards.
I couldn't tell you about it. I just invoke it and it magically shows me the updated info of my system. Surely it must be because I use the latest version of screenfetch.
I installed the screenfetch manually and through this short tutorial >> https://blog.desdelinux.net/instalar-screenfetch/
That was enough for me, in addition to customizing the gnome-terminal profile to make it more readable and avoid problems when writing some commands.
This update brought very important changes.
Basically you could say that now is when Debian Wheezy has really come out since version 7.0.0 has come out a bit premature due to pressure from users since Wheezy brings a new and better world for Debian since Debian Squeeze was staying quickly old along with the long cycle of freezing and bug fixing: D. The proof of this is the fact that Debian does not bring this update with 7.0.1 but 7.1.0 ..
The list of changes is here:
http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130615
And for that same reason I published this news, in addition to having solved the problem of checks that did not work in the first tab of software sources.
For anyone who wants a current and Zen kernel, I highly recommend:
http://liquorix.net/
For me, it is appropriate if the machine is not a server.
The installation instructions are the same as always, and on the page they are well explained. You already told me how are you 😉
and is that based on kernel 3.2?
Those liquorix kernels are nothing to write home about, I've seen them and they don't optimize that much, a default kernel will never be fully optimized, you have to play with lspci and remove unnecessary mods.
Any advice for someone with an old laptop (intel centrino with chipset from more than 7 years ago, 1GB of ram…)? I mean, would liquorix really suit me? or is it a better risk to avoid?
Opimize everything you can ... I'd even get icewm.
You can put LXDE as a GUI, in addition to prioritizing with some driver packages that are not really being used and so you can load your system faster. I was using a PC with 1st grade PC Chips mainboard. generation with Debian Squeeze, the speed with which it ran was higher than it had with Windows.
Anyway, you can install Debian 7 but leaving the system utilities as the priority, the GUI (preferably XFCE or LXDE) and the audio for after having configured the file "/etc/apt/sources.list" correctly.
I think the best thing you can do to optimize your system is to compile your own kernel if you want to optimize to the maximum. I leave you a guide:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s06.html.en
Good as always by the Debian people, correcting the problems with them to offer everything as stable as possible: D!
Downloading..
Obviously, since Debian is among the three most stable distros out there (Slackware, Debian, RHEL / CentOS).
Yes, it weighed like 140mb. Then in the Grub Debian 7.1 comes out
In my case, I replaced the libreoffice that came by default with the most recent libreoffice that appears on the official website. In itself, the libreoffice is what weighs the most in updates.
And I think 140 MB is nothing with the 560 or 620 MB that an update weighs like a Windows 7 Service Pack.
It is nothing. Worse is when the kde, libreoffice, netbeans and eclipse updates are put together in archlinux as 1gb of update, even though I have downloaded 30gb games 😛 so there is no drama
Oh, sure. That is a really heavy update. But on my PC with Debian wheezy, I have not seen such a problem because they always update the kernel and other sensitive components first. The rest will be updated later with various improvements and with more patience. In Debian development applications like Eclipse always patch it after a really serious system update.
of course they are just security updates. In the petercheco installation guide I don't know if there is an error or what, but when you add the non-free repos it also adds them in the deb-src lines, supposedly there is no source of non-free software and that line is the sources: p It may be so?.
@Striders:
Yes, it may be that as a precaution you remove deb-src to avoid problems with space. I always disable deb-src to avoid such mishaps.
Hi Strider,
Regarding the non-free archives of the Debian repos included in my guide, of course there are src packages in the repos and therefore it is valid.
I leave you a sample:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/source/
In the same way there is in the repos http://security.debian.org/ otherwise an error would occur when executing apt-get update warning of this error 😀
As for the problem with the space that could generate having activated the src eliotime3000, there is nothing that is not fixed with an apt-get autoremove and apt-get autoclean: D. Still apt takes care of cleaning the files after installing a package :).
Thanks Peter for the explanation.
@petercheco:
I already use apt-get autoclean and apt-get autoremove and they have really helped me a lot, besides saving my skin when I want to get rid of such old dependencies.
At this very moment I am going to update my system.
interesting the fact that it is not debian 7.0.1 but debian 7.1.
As @petercheco said, the reason 7.1 was named instead of 7.0.1 was because version 7.0 (for me an RTM) had come out too early and was missing several important bugs (arguably the release of 5 May was pure hype).
Indeed 😀
Great news…