Tells you a developer from Debian to another: It seems that something we are doing right. And we already saw like NASA trusted in Debian GNU / Linux to operate the Space Station computers and now Google, also places its trust in community distribution.
This has been published on the blog of Google App EngineWhere Jimmy kaplowitz tells us, as far as I could understand:
This was a very exciting week for the Debian community who released Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" which brings great improvements, including very strong security and improved compatibility for 32/64-bit. Today we are adding Debian images to Google Compute Engine. Debian, in collaboration with us, is providing images of both Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" and the previous stable version, Debian 6.0 "Squeeze." This support will make it easier for everyone's workstations using Debian on Compute Engine.
For fast performance, and to reduce bandwidth costs, Google will have a mirror of Debian for use by Google Compute Engine. We have updated our docs and will support Debian through our usual support options.
We are continually evaluating other operating systems that we can enable with Compute Engine. However, in the future, Debian will be the default image type for Compute Engine. We look forward to hearing your comments.
More information can be obtained in a space of the Debian Wiki especially dedicated to it.
Excellent news in my opinion, that one of the monsters of the Internet offers support to Debian. There they have the result of being a distribution that advocates stability before the novelty, something that many around here criticize.
Seen in: libuntu | Original article: Google App Engine Blog
Phenomenal. "Something Debian is doing right" Obviously, it's been like this for years, the detail is that Ubuntu was obviously more popular, but Debian is Debian.
Hopefully this collaboration is healthy for everyone and that Debian has Google at bay, which I know they will. +
Great news.
good for the .deb.
then it will go back to KDE 4.8.4.? for that of stability and novelty?
Who is going to return to where? Who who?
"To be a distribution that advocates stability rather than novelty, something that many around here criticize .."
Well, I see many debian users using repos from other distros or mixing stable with testing to have newer packages: p
Jokes aside, I'm happy for Debian, I'll try it one day.
Sure, Debian advocates that but I don't so much hahaha.
I hardly have added the Google Chrome repos, the Iceweasel backport and some proprietary programs such as Kingston Office and Skype. The rest, I installed it from its official repos.
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Important for those who use debian
A warning on debian-multimedia.org
The May "Bits from the Debian Project Leader" posting includes a notice that the debian-multimedia.org domain - once the site of a popular Debian package repository - has expired and been grabbed by an unknown entity. If any Debian users have references to that site in their APT configurations, now would be a good time to take them out. As Lucas Nussbaum says: «This is a good example of the importance of the use of cryptography to secure APT repositories (and of the importance of not blindly adding keys).»
I don't know if someone still has the site enabled in their sources.list debian-multimedia.org that a long time ago it was replaced by deb-multimedia.org. So if someone who is reading this still has it activated, I recommend that you delete it and if you need certain codecs that are not in the official repositories, replace it with the second address, you have to keep in mind that these repositories are from third parties and the News says that the expired site now belongs to an unknown entity.
Great news! The truth is that the Debian guys deserve credit for their great work, and without Debian the Linux landscape would be very different (Ubuntu wouldn't even exist to begin with).
I already want to see when RHEL 7 and its clones come out, and now say better we go to Scientific Linux or CentOS http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Red-Hat-s-RHEL-7-roadmap-1631791.html for more information on what to expect.
http://fossadvocates.org/planet/debian-vs-centos/
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Have I said when RHEL 7 comes out, there they are comparing with CentOS 6 vs Debian 7 it is obvious that in software there is a small difference for now -_- *
Off-Topic.
One question, Garbage_Killer: do you know how to solve the problem of the reading of CentOS checksums? since I wanted to install CentOS in VirtualBox and it tells me that there is an error reading the repos that are on the DVD / ISO.
Something told me why so much visual configuration in RHEL / CentOS and not much console.
Anyway, I'll give it a try.
For something they choose Debian and not RHEL or one of its derivatives focused on servers, and that something lies in that in stability, things as they are, there is no comparison with Debian.
Not only for its stability, but for its stupidly effective versatility that it has (it is even possible to install it on an iPhone with GNOME 3 Shell).
In fact, a Debian derivative optimized for ARM devices has come out called Raspbian, which looks quite identical to Debian, but its performance is superior.
Congratulations to the Debian Team! WE ARE PARTY TODAY AND ALWAYS. Long live Old Debian !!!
And forever and ever, Amen.
PS: Use the Iceweasel backports. They are on par with the Firefox versions.
Certainly
Debian will no longer support the until recently native versions of Squeeze (3.5.16) and Wheezy (10.0.12) now instead of taking a version of Iceweasel and maintaining it for the duration of the branch as stable, they will update directly to a new version of the ESR channel, so backports are only required for release, beta and aurora versions. Come on, what I have always wanted on this specific issue has finally been fulfilled.
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2699
We're changing the approach for security updates for Iceweasel, Icedove and Iceape in stable-security: Instead of backporting security fixes, we now provide releases based on the Extended Support Release branch. As such, this update introduces packages based on Firefox 17 and at some point in the future we will switch to the next ESR branch once ESR 17 has reached it's end of life.
And that's why I like to use the release version of the mozilla.debian.net backport (and they even announced it right there). Anyway, the backport gave me the relief of not having to download and install Firefox manually and having to run into issues like Flash Player settings.
Very good Debian!
Ahead!
Long live Debian !!!
I think they selected debian for the .deb packages if they liked the .rpm they would surely choose the red hat distros, because at the server level they both have a very good reputation
For the servers I don't change Debian for nothing, for the desktop Archlinux commands 😀
That's good news for fans of this distro. I've been using it since I was on Lenny and the truth is that it is an excellent distro to work with
Good thing Google chose Debian. Now, let's wait for the Wikimedia Foundation to change the Ubuntu Server to Debian Squeeze.
I would like to know the answer to the question of http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2013/05/bringing-debian-to-google-compute-engine_9.html
Will we get access to the source code of the kernel which runs the Debian images on Google Compute Engine? Not all, but many Debian users choose Debian because of the social contract that includes access to source code. I have heard that GCE has its own kernels which run the systems.
which translated into Spanish would be:
Will we have access to the kernel source code that runs Debian images on Google Compute Engine? Not all, but many Debian users choose it because of the social contract, which includes access to the source code. I have heard that the CME has its own kernels on which its systems run.
Tsssss, also that I liked google, Caracoles. Well they say that yahoo is good.
Debian is an extremely robust operating platform and now more flexible with the new version 7, in good time to the debian team as this is a recognition of their work and excellence in stability and security.
Now what's next? Buy from DEBIAN? Close DEBIAN?
I am happy for GNU / Linux, since it is Debian, Ubuntu or whatever, it is Linux and that makes it spread more and more and has more allies.
On the sidelines, I would like someone from Google to explain to me why Debian and not CentOS really, but hey, they are tastes.