John Andreasson - Slashdot User

Comment Why Debian? (Score 3, Interesting) 191

by John Andreasson on Sunday May 05, 2013 @09:14AM (#43634055) Attached to: Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy") Released

As someone that is new to Linux I've always found Debian to be somewhat weird. I guess a lot of Debian users uses it since they are used to it. But as a new Linux user, why would I use Debian when the software is so old and outdated? We're at Firefox 20 and Debian has only version 10. OK that Firefox revs every six weeks, but you get the point. If it's old from day one then how old won't it be when Debian 8 is released.

Submission + - Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" Released (debian.org)

Submitted by kthreadd on Sunday May 05, 2013 @03:14AM

kthreadd writes: The Debian project has released version 7.0 (codename "Wheezy") of their popular free software distribution. A major new feature in this release is multi-arch support, simplifying installation of packages for different architectures on the same system. The installation system has also seen a lot of improvements; it now allows Debian to be installed using software speech. It also supports installation on UEFI for the AMD64 architecture, although not yet with "Secure Boot." The Linux kernel has been upgraded to version 3.2 and the FreeBSD kernel is available in both version 8.3 and 9.0. Most packages has also been updated to newer versions.

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