[TAF] wml://News/2011/20110726b.wml

[David Prévot <david@tilapin.org>]

Salut,

Les communiqués de presse s'accumulent avec la DebConf (j'en ai deux
autres sous le coude que j'espère finaliser rapidement). Merci au
volontaire de répondre par un ITT et de suivre la procédure habituelle.

Amicalement

David

<define-tag pagetitle>Debian 7 <q>Wheezy</q> to introduce multiarch support</define-tag>

<define-tag release_date>2011-07-26</define-tag>
#use wml::debian::news

<p>
During this year's annual Debian Conference DebConf11 made the introduction of 
<q>multiarch support</q> a release goal for the coming Debian release 7 
<q>Wheezy</q> to be released in 2013. Multiarch is a radical rethinking of the 
filesystem hierarchy with respect to library and header paths, to make programs 
and libraries of different hardware architectures easily installable in parallel 
on the very same system.
</p>

<p>
<q>Multiarch is a major enhancement to Debian's ability to deliver on the 
promise of being a universal operating system</q> explains Steve Langasek, 
driving force of the implementation, <q>not only will it make crossbuilding 
easier, but also enables better support for legacy 32-bit applications on new 
64-bit installations and in the future will even allow live migrations from 
32-bit to 64-bit systems.</q>
</p>

<p>
People interested in the topic can watch the talk by Steve Langasek <q>Multiarch 
in Debian: 6 months (or 6 years) on</q> today at 16:00 CEST (14:00 UTC) by using 
the <a href="http://debconf11.debconf.org/watch.xhtml";>DebConf web frontend</a>.
</p>

<h2>About Debian</h2>

<p>
The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
the largest and most influential open source projects.  Thousands of
volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and
supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the
<q>universal operating system</q>.
</p>

<h2>Contact Information</h2>

<p>For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
<a href="$(HOME)/">http://www.debian.org/</a> or send mail to
&lt;press@debian.org&gt;.</p>

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