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Debian Project Releases 7.0 "Wheezy" Installer Candidate

Posted by timothy on from the so-many-people-hours dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The first release candidate of Debian Installer 7.0 Wheezy was released this week. Debian 7.0 is set to introduce a number of new features including optional systemd support, a real-time Linux kernel option, UEFI installation support, and the Debian Installer now supports WPA/WPA2 wireless networks. More Debian 7.0 features are listed on the Debian Wiki and the 7.0 RC1 installer can be downloaded at Debian.org." Update: 02/21 16:12 GMT by S : Changed headline and summary to reflect that it was the Installer release candidate, not the distribution.

19 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. Ugh!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the Debian Installer, not Debian.

    As a DD, I was shocked slashdot knew before me.

  2. A RC of the installer, not of the distribution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is RC1 of the debian installer, not of the wheezy distribution.

  3. Moronix by feld · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I swear to god if you keep posting articles that are links to Phoronix I'm going to firewall off your site and never visit again.

    How about you link to the real source (mailing lists, official Debian website) instead of sending traffic to Michael Larabel's bullshit ramblings about LOONIX NEWS that he can't even properly comprehend let alone summarize 95% of the time.

    1. Re:Moronix by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

      I swear to god if you keep posting articles that are links to Phoronix I'm going to firewall off your site and never visit again.

      It's too bad that slashdotters so poorly comprehend maturity or we could go ahead and just deprecate it by always calling it Moronix or Whoreonix (I have nothing against whores, only secret whores) or similar. But you can't even throw in a Micro$oft without some whining from people who don't remember Compu$erve.

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    2. Re:Moronix by ifiwereasculptor · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Phoronix isn't exactly a good news site. Nevertheless, it's probably the only site that does Linux hardware reviews, follows the progress of various open source initiatives and does that having a single semi-journalist. Good, properly staffed computer news sites out there like Anand and Tom's Hardware completely ignore Linux, Unix, BSD and what have you, therefore, inaccurate as it can be, Phoronix is the best source of information we have. Plus, bitching about inaccuracies on slashdot is borderline hilarious. This is the holy grail of fabricated flamebaits.

  4. Wrong title by GeekWithAKnife · · Score: 5, Informative


    Even the Phoronix article clearly has "Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" Installer Release Candidate 1" See that? INSTALLER!

    Stop degrading Slashdot with misleading headlines!

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  5. Re:Quite actual - Not! by SJHillman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't think you understand the Debian philosophy. It's not "latest and greatest". It's "so stable, Archimedes could stand here to move the whole world"

  6. wheezy by puddingebola · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wheezy was George Jefferson's wife on the Jeffersons. This is an installer to install back episodes of the classic sitcom on your linux PC.

    1. Re:wheezy by dave3138 · · Score: 2

      I'm assuming the name's a reference to this guy: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Wheezy_(Toy_Story)

  7. Wrong wrong wrong by X0563511 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    WRONG wrong wrong WRONG wrong wrong WRONG wrong wrong WRONG wrong wrong WRONG wrong wrong!!!!!!!!!

    Timothy, what the fuck are you doing?

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    1. Re:Wrong wrong wrong by Gothmolly · · Score: 2

      He's Timothy being Timothy.

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  8. Re:TIMOTHY THE FUCKUP by 1s44c · · Score: 2

    fire timothy. fire timothy NOW.

    This guy has a valid point.

    Stop posting link farm bull crap Timothy and get the dam summary right.

  9. 219 to go by martijn+hoekstra · · Score: 2

    And counting. Wake me up when http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ hits under 20.

  10. Re:Just installed it for a school by TheCarp · · Score: 2

    You installed Wheezy for a school, and sound didn't work?

    First, Wheezy is a testing distro, I wouldn't install it unless I really needed something in it. In this case, I did install it (and like it) but, I did it because I couldn't get sound to work under the stable distro, not the other way around.

    So you are willing to run a testing distro, and take the time to badmouth what doesn't work in testing, but also wont take the time to report bugs to the devs. Nice work there. Yah its a little rough around the edges sometimes, thats why its called testing.

    FWIW, I was looking at the bugs list just before I upgraded. By my estimates, which comes from looking at the graph of release critical bugs vs previous releases, and I was (in December I think) predicting the next Debian release sometime in 3rd Q of 2013. I know thats not what they are saying, but, thats the way it appeared to be trending.

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  11. Re:Quite actual - Not! by spike+hay · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And with the software as old as Archimedes.

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  12. Wheezy / Toy Story reference by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 4, Informative

    No need to assume anything here. It's explained nicely in this FAQ: The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ - section 6.2

  13. Wheezy by Frankie70 · · Score: 2

    Well we're movin on up, To the east side.
    To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
    Movin on up
    To the east side.
    We finally got a piece of the pie.

  14. Re:Quite actual - Not! by Blaskowicz · · Score: 2

    It's the exact same software as Ubuntu 12.04, whose usable version is called Linux Mint 13 Mate or Linux Mint 13 Xfce.
    Debian stable when released will allow to install a slight variant, more vanilla looking of the same thing, with its highs and lows - e.g. what bullshit do I need to type on the prompt to install all non free firmware.

    I wouldn't install anything else on a friend's computer, a public computer, for a relative I barely know at all etc., all situations where it's nice that the computer still works, still works the same and still gets updates many years later.
    And at least it's more up to date than Ubuntu 8.04, Squeeze or Ubuntu 10.04.

  15. Re:Quite actual - Not! by Great+Big+Bird · · Score: 2

    I run a student operated server, and I inherited an ancient Debian install that I had little control over. I proceeded to wipe for FreeBSD9 (partially the decision of the operator just before me), had that for about six months. Now that I am on Debian Testing again, life is simple again. I appreciate this about Debian. But given the nature of the 'student' part, I cannot have a compiler that is ancient considering the C++11 stuff people are using. Even in testing it is a great system.