This was announced Neil mcgovern in the mailing list from the developers of Debian, since apparently everyone agreed that by May 4 or 5 they could officially launch version 7 that is named Wheezy.
This is excellent news for all the users of this distro. Currently only 25 bugs that affect debian wheezy, so I hope that by those dates they are already solved, at least most of it.
At this time I am getting impatient, to continue in Testing 😀
I fulfill that day! Thanks Debian !!
My birthday is May 4
mine on May 5
Good News elav!
Waiting for her: D!
Regards!
This is good news. I also have a test out there and I want Wheezy to come out. It is the first time that I coincide in a Debian test with a version change. Let's see how. So far everything is going well.
Excellent news, I love Debian and I have it installed on whezzy
The movement starts a few weeks after the stable version comes out.
excellent for all users regardless of what bdistro we use ... what is debian affects all (or almost all distros)
Congratulations to the team for the hard work hehehe
I'm with debian stable (squeeze) and so far, everything is going great for me. I have had no problems updating the Iceweasel or installing Libreoffice 4 from the official website. It has not thrown me any errors and I feel comfortable with Squeeze.
Now, I hope that with Wheezy it really captures average users and that when it comes to installing on DVD, I stop relying on it, since lately it has been a tremendous annoyance having to use the DVD to install from repositories and many other things. .
That is because you have not removed the repo of the DVD / CD from your sources.list, you remove it and you only have to do an update and voila, it no longer asks for the DVD / CD
Thank you very much for the advice. What's more, I added the American mirror for which he has updated most of my repos (which are happily all right).
Now I can install packages as if it were Ubuntu.
Excellent!! (with accent of skipper the penguin of madagascar)
A tip for the inhabitants of testing: when there is a release the testing and sid branches become somewhat unstable due to the large number of packages that are retained for entering, my advice for those who value stability is to enjoy the Wheezy release and stay in stable for a month or two until the waters take their course.
Negative Cabo (with the accent of skipper the penguin of Madagascar) .. No one is going to deprive me of using the last packages that enter the Zoo .. I am as crazy as the Ringtail.
Hehe, of course I am also upside down, I say it so that you do not expect the same stability as always, there will be some turbulence but I am crazy to have KDE 4.10 in testing, I am testing it in fedora and it is very good.
Well, I don't know what to do. I'm between a clean install, or upgrading my Debian Squeeze.
Any opinion?…
Greetings.
From scratch everything will be more beautiful 😀
Thank you. And more secure.
One question I have, since it is the first time that I am going to catch a version change in debian.
Since a few months I have had Debian Wheezy (with kde), in which I have already been a previewer and I have changed in sources.list all the entries that were referenced as "testing" to "wheezy".
For the most veteran my question / doubt is that when it is more or less "convenient" to go to the new testing version.
In some blogs / forums I have read that until 2-3 months have elapsed, in some other that from now on… .. I am very interested in your opinions.
It is considered healthy to wait 2 or 3 months, my advice if you want to try testing do it in a virtual machine first and if nothing explodes then upgrade.
If nothing explodes? .. man for God's sake haha! .. maybe there is some Taliban like KZKGaara in the Debian lists and put some Bomb or somethingO haha!
XD!
Better do it from scratch (zero problems with packet compatibility, decent performance…). Anyway, I'll download the Debian Wheezy ISO when it's really available and I'll format everything and update the browsers I use the most (Chromium, Iceweasel) and add others (Flash Player, Skype…).
Anyway, I pray that at least the GNOME 3 I have keeps the classic interface for me, or I will change it to XFCE to avoid so much tantrum.
Install again? For what? It's neither Ubuntu nor Windows, plus Debian makes the transition from one version to another as smooth as possible.
A query: Does the Debian 7 installer that come down on DVD detect me that I have an older version and update it or do I necessarily have to download the update image in order to update my Debian?
To update you don't need any DVD, you just change your repos from Squeeze to Wheezy and then do a dist-upgrade.
The problem in my case is that I have a 500 kbps internet and it is not convenient for me to have to use the dist-upgrade from the Debian repos because they take a long time to download (in addition, the signal is interrupted every time because of my wireless card).
In any case, thank you very much for the tip.
I always wanted Debian to be released for my birthday, May 4, and months before I knew it was possible. But I deleted everything to install Arch, I don't regret it. I think the only distro capable of stopping me from using Arch is Gentoo, but that's a long way off and I'll use both depending on the day anyway.
What good news and what a good gift with a spiral cake for the birthday band of May ha. Apparently in the news of the official site it is not published yet. Or do you know in which section the news appears besides the mailing list?
The antithesis of Arch Linux 😀
Debian Ideal for servers and computers THAT CANNOT FAIL ..
But for the normal and common user?
Naaaaaaa! nothing to do, stay with your usual distros, after all, what Debian 7 will bring, and you have used it 8 months ago 😉 so there is nothing new involved
BitchPlease.
I am an average user and I have definitely been using Debian Squeeze on my Lentium 4 and so far zero problems, I get along well with the apt-get, aptitude and dpkg commands, in addition to having the Chromium 25 brought from the Launchpad, with Iceweasel 20 since mozilla.debian.net and all quiet.
Anyway, I pray that the GNOME 3 comes with classic and that it detects my Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 710s monitor (since when you install it for the first time, it appears with the maximum resolution that the video card can support and I really don't like that) .
Not because you are up to date are you cooler 😉
Actually what Debian 7 brings is a consistency that you don't always find in your rolling releases.
almost a year of freezing, does not it seem a bit exaggerated ??
When there are so many software, for so many processor architectures, and for various kernels (Linux, FreeBSD, and maybe some Hurd), it is a huge job; And if a large part of them are volunteers ...
On the other hand, I am in Testing and collecting from Experimental KDE 4.10.2, LibreOffice 4 and Iceweasel 20, and they hardly give me errors; and the ones I have, are not of real importance: the transition to the new KMail / Kontact / Akonadi, without problems, IT very well, KDE 4.10 on one computer is perfect, on another two with bugs that do not affect the daily operation.
Well a bit, also the problem is when inefficient versions of software freeze ...
Excellent news 🙂 countdown !!!!
Whatever Debian naysayers say, everyone in Linux knows that this release is by far the most important of the year.
Come on, come on, Debian 7, we are waiting for you.
Good that Debian Wheezy arrives. The new version was already needed to update to our beloved Debian.
Too bad it is May 4/5 and not April 19 !!!
Debian 7 is coming in May! [running and screaming hysterically until completely naked].
At last I will be able to install Steam and keep Chromium up to date (I just pray that it is available in the same way that Iceweasel is on mozilla.debian.net because the launchpad update system for Ubuntu Lucid is already getting me sick).
after 10 months of freezing, it was about time!
anyone know if there was ever so much time (or more) of freezing?
no. this is the longest period of freezing. The previous record was 8 months with Lenny
Well, given such news, I think it would be best to wait for his official departure.
excellent news I have been to wheezy for a long time, although I must say that squeeze is a very good version and it is too stable it is debian, the truth is that since fedora began to disappoint me I have been debian for a long time on my desktop pc I have debian 6 and on my laptop crunchbang
Good news for all Debianites 🙂
Yes, and especially for those who want to install Steam and thus be able to play all the games that this platform brings.
Finally!!!
A question Will you have a bit more installer for end user?
For end user, what do you mean?
It refers to users who are just starting out in the world of computing and / or those users who have used Windows and / or Mac OS X from the beginning.
I started using Windows, but when I realized that it was a pain to maintain, I realized that the Debian installer was quite similar to Windows XP in some ways (not visually, since that is completely different).
As for the handling, it may be that you kick a bit, but with the passage of time you will realize that it turns out to be much easier than using Windows, and even, the experience when using it could be much more comfortable.
So far, I am with Debian Stable (squeeze) and I have done wonders with the programs that I have updated even with the PPA of the launchpad (I recommend taking from Lucid because if they take from other versions of Ubuntu there will be a lot of dependency incompatibilities).
I doubt it. So far there is only one way of automatic partitioning and that is by erasing the entire disk. For those who want to dualboot, they have to do it manually.
But if you have installed Windows XP, manual partitioning will surely be quite familiar to you, it only differs in that you have to specify if it is storage or if it is swap or swap area.
End user, is anyone who does not know anything about computer science, who only knows how to use the browser, the word, and this.
then they won't know how to install windows
who knows how to install windows, knows how to install debian
Now that you say it, they have already simplified the Debian Wheezy installer enough to the point that it can be assimilated even by a person who does not know the use of an operating system (even restoring your system is much easier than in Windows).
In summary: Yes, it will be a little longer for the end user.
The debian installer, the graph, is a bit boring, but it's really easy ... I don't understand that question.
The graphical Debian Wheezy installer has been simplified a bit, but it is quite fast compared to Ubiquiti (I have already got a special fondness for the Debian text mode installer and its derivatives).
Excellent by the folks at Debian, my second favorite OS.
I LOVE DEBIAN! NUMBER ONE
Is it really advisable to go from testing to wheezy for 2 or 3 months before updating? It is also the first time that I have caught this process since I have not been in debian long and I am worried that the system will crash. Having to install again from scratch with a netinstall makes me tedious.
Another question, how often does testing usually freeze?
Greetings.
About a year and a half after a stable version is released is when the testing branch is frozen, for example, Squeeze was released in February 2011 and in July 2012 Wheezy was frozen, updating depends on your priorities: If you are needing your system to remain fairly stable as it should be, wait with your repositories pointing to Wheezy for a couple of months and then switch. If you do not mind sacrificing some stability for a season, continue in testing that soon will shake but it is not to exaggerate, the problem is in how we carry the system and how we update it, if we have fluttered and mixed the repositories as Sometimes we even break, and if we have fiddled with certain drivers we can build a kilombo with the graphics depending on the environment, but if you have everything in order, nothing more serious than one or another temporary tremor should happen so that later your system become fairly stable again. To upgrade correctly instead of apt-get better use aptitude, go to safe-upgrade several times, and it is also better that the sources.list points to the name of the Debian version instead of the name of the branch.
I think the freeze was actually in June, at last in Debian things are done more by prudence than by date, and if I did not comment I did not realize that my user agent is drunk, now it is fixed, ready.
Hi, I currently use Debian Wheezy, maybe the only problem is updating the Flash Player to see updated pages of videos.
I also use Wheezy and I have the flash player updated from the repos without problems, at least that's what firefox tells me, so I don't know what problem you can have with the flash ……
Best regard:
Look, I have updated my debian Wheezy, what happens is that pages, for example caracoltv, here in Colombia, have a link to see live signal, and that is where I find difficulties to reproduce, the youtube videos are not a problem, I update firefox with the Mint repositories, just like the flash Player.
It should be noted that this error occurs in an AMD Dual Core computer installed at 64 Bits.
I would appreciate if you have any suggestions… Thank you.
Greetings to all:
This concern comes to me, for work reasons and requests from some clients, they ask me to do a clean installation of their new desktop or laptop computers licensed with Win 8 (bad for me), install the Debian distro that is used for certain programs, but I am concerned if it is possible to do it without affecting the startup that new windows brings by default.
Thanks for the input.
mmm I think that debian wheezy does not support the "safe" boot that windows 8 brings but someone who has tried it can tell you better, with windows 7 you will not have problems.
To be 100% sure I suppose you can try to do the test with a virtual machine right?
Ok, thanks, I'll follow your suggestion, I'll test it on a virtual machine.