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Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released

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Re: Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released

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Post by dsr_ »

pervycreeper wrote: post #2

Would this be a good time to migrate from Ubuntu?

Certainly. Wheezy is the new "stable", which will get security support for a year past the introduction of the next stable release. It's an excellent choice for servers, and right now it's not a bad desktop release.

In another year or so you might want to move to the testing release for a desktop that needs the latest features.

Re: Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released

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Post by oinksoft »

karlmdavis wrote: post #4

> This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as: > Linux 3.2 For anyone else wondering, Ubuntu 13.04 has the 3.8 kernel and 12.04.2 has the 3.5 kernel ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack ).

For anyone else wondering, RHEL 6.4 has the 2.6.32-358 kernel.

Zenwalk 7.2 has the 3.2.5 kernel.

What's the point of citing the kernel shipped with another distro here?

Re: Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released

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Post by jckt »

oinksoft wrote: post #5
karlmdavis wrote: post #4

> This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as: > Linux 3.2 For anyone else wondering, Ubuntu 13.04 has the 3.8 kernel and 12.04.2 has the 3.5 kernel ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack ).

For anyone else wondering, RHEL 6.4 has the 2.6.32-358 kernel. Zenwalk 7.2 has the 3.2.5 kernel. What's the point of citing the kernel shipped with another distro here?

It's an interesting fact I suppose. It's interesting to see why certain distros chose certain kernel versions.

Re: Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released

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Post by oinksoft »

pervycreeper wrote: post #2

Would this be a good time to migrate from Ubuntu?

Just make sure you're not on "testing" if you're doing this for a desktop (note that it is uncommon to run "testing" on a server). This release means that Sid ("unstable") just became "testing". Now, many folks are running Sid fine on their desktops, but historically the Sid -> testing push is volatile in the short term, and you probably would want to wait a couple weeks.

Basically, be wary of "testing" after a release.

Re: Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released

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Post by mappu »

Congratulations to everyone involved. I've been running wheezy on my home server for a while now (/var/www moved to /srv, apt diffs package lists...) and i look forward to upgrading the production servers over the coming months.

As an aside, it's really interesting that the word 'Linux' is mentioned only once on this page - and only after the kFreeBSD kernel.

Re: Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released

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Post by will1000 »

oinksoft wrote: post #5
karlmdavis wrote: post #4

> This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as: > Linux 3.2 For anyone else wondering, Ubuntu 13.04 has the 3.8 kernel and 12.04.2 has the 3.5 kernel ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack ).

For anyone else wondering, RHEL 6.4 has the 2.6.32-358 kernel. Zenwalk 7.2 has the 3.2.5 kernel. What's the point of citing the kernel shipped with another distro here?

I was under the impression that a newer kernel ment more hardware support. Am I wrong?

Re: Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released

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Post by eropple »

pervycreeper wrote: post #2

Would this be a good time to migrate from Ubuntu?

I'm not, because I find Debian's KVM support to be not what I expect, but if you don't like Ubuntu for whatever reason, it's not a bad time to do it. That said, Debian stable means you'd better be happy with what you have for a very long time unless you want to deal with the often-painful stable->testing or stable->unstable migration. (It can be done, I've done it many times, but expect it to break something.)

Personally, I just use Ubuntu. It's Debian unstable but shinier. :)

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