Debian 7.0 Wheezy test experience

Debian 7.0 (Wheezy) has been released, and now is another time to evaluate this highly respected Linux project.

Debian is the first release of Linux. It has become the cornerstone of Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and many other Desktop Linux releases. However, many strangers to Linux may not even have heard of Debian. This is really a pity, because in addition to all the features provided for other desktop releases, Debian itself also provides many features.

Install Debian 7.0 Wheezy on a USB flash drive

Debian 7.0 Wheezy released!

Debian has three main branches:

• Stable version
• Test version
• Unstable version

Debian 7 is the latest stable version.

Debian 7 pre-installation Startup Menu

Wikipedia has a very good background article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian) about the background of Debian. If you are unfamiliar with Debian, read it. The information you obtain is much richer than what I can provide in this evaluation article.

Below are several summary sections:

"Debian is one of the most influential open-source projects of the Linux release. It maintains more than 29000 software packages in the software library, which can be installed at any time. Its software library contains a large number of software packages for a variety of architectures, with more than any other Linux release project. Debian contains software in an additional software library named "non-free", but provides release version installation. Debian is considered to be a reliable and stable Linux, and has already appeared in the branch version (Debian derivative version) for many times ).

Debian provides an experimental kernel selection for its release, and provides ultimate support for more hardware devices. There are some architecture development packages for FreeBSD kernel (kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64) and Hurd kernel, making Debian the only operating system that provides three different kernels; Linux is the most widely used for stability. The supported architectures include Intel/AMD 32-bit/64-bit architectures that usually appear in personal computers, and ARM architectures that usually appear in embedded systems, to the z/architecture that usually appears in mainframe computers, there is no difference.

Debian contains many popular programs, such as LibreOffice and Iceweasel), Evolution Mail €, CD/DVD recorder, audio and video player, Image Viewer and editor, and PDF viewer. Using the constructive cost model (COCOMO), the cost of developing all the software packages (5.0 lines of code in total) contained in Debian 0.323 billion lenny is estimated to be about $8 billion. Ohloh estimates that using COCOMO models to develop code libraries (54 million lines of code in total) will cost about $1 billion.

The GNOME desktop environment is used for standard Debian installation. There are also pre-fabricated CD image files for KDE Software Compilation, Xfce, and LXDE. The remaining disks (including five DVDs or more than 30 CDs) contain all currently available software packages, which are not required for standard installation. Another installation method is to install CD (net install CD) over the network, which is much smaller than normal installation CD/DVD. It only contains the basic necessary components required to start running the installer. You can download the selected software package through the advanced packaging tool (APT) during the installation process. These CD/DVD image files can be freely obtained through internet downloads, BitTorrent, jigdo download tools, online retailers, and other channels.

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