Re: Does any one know what day Wheezy will be released?
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> From: Timothy Magee <timothymagee0@gmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 10:30 AM
> Subject: Does any one know what day Wheezy will be released?
>
> I am about to install linux on a computer, and I want to install
> debian. Right now I have two computers one running Ubuntu 12 and
> another running Debian 4 or something. I like Debian because I can
> download the DVD's of the software and take it home because I don't
> have internet at my house. I really want a stable debian release, but
> I even more want Linux Kernel 3.x. I am willing to wait a few weeks
> but not months/years. Can anyone give me a date for when Wheezy should
> be released?
Why wait? Install Wheezy now. It's frozen and more than stable enough. I did about 2 months ago under the Beta installer, and haven't had any problems: No crashes; freezes; etc. However, I opted for just a window manager--Openbox--for "lightness" instead of the full GNOME3 desktop which I hate, and in any case, only works in "fallback" mode due to either the graphics card (EVGA GeForce 8400GS) or, most likely, the default noveau driver. I haven't gotten around to installing the proprietary nVidia driver anyway, if I ever do. The system works fine as it is.
To keep it current, and eventually upgrade to stable, you'll need to figure out a way to "apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade" it. Maybe, add a DVD-RW disk for update packages to the full install DVD.
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