Debian 7 is released! Woo-hoo!!!!

[Recursion]

http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504

Best OS out there, at least for me.

The installation process has been greatly improved: Debian can now be installed using software speech, above all by visually impaired people who do not use a Braille device. Thanks to the combined efforts of a huge number of translators, the installation system is available in 73 languages, and more than a dozen of them are available for speech synthesis too.
In addition, for the first time, Debian supports installation and booting using UEFI for new 64-bit PCs (amd64), although there is no support for "Secure Boot" yet.

[Phillip McCleod]

1. sounds sweet!

maybe i'll install it over the ubuntu i installed the other day after you posted about the new release of *that* OS. i'm looking forward to ubuntu mobile, but for now it's still an unusable desktop OS to me. debian at least is familiar ground.

[Recursion]

3. It's AWESOME

This is the Debian I've been waiting for.

[Phillip McCleod]

4. hate to say it b/c i can see how excited you are..

..but arch linux already has most of those new features.. except the braille installer.

let the lines be drawn .. lightly and in sand.

[Recursion]

5. Arch is not feature-stable

With Debian I know this configuration is supported for two years.

[Phillip McCleod]

6. that's a fact..

Its always evolving.. and occasionally breaks because of it. There is an LTS kernel for arch bang but yeah it's a whole other animal.

Just. Couldn't resist..

[uriel1972]

2. Mmmm so many OS's so little time... nt

[madokie]

7. I have it burned ready to try

but rather than let me try it out it wants to install. How do I check it out without installing it?
TIA

[Recursion]

8. They do a livecd and an installcd

You may have downloaded the installer?

[madokie]

9. Okie dokie,

Thats exactly what I did, downloaded the wrong one. Thanks

[Recursion]

10. As of yesterday the livecd was still 6.0 rather than 7.0

Make sure they update it before you try that.

[madokie]

11. Here is the link where I'm downloading now

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/i386/iso-dvd/

I'm downloading debian-7.0.0-i386-DVD-3.iso
Its going to be an all morning download which is fine as I've got gardening to do today anyway.
Thanks for the help

[madokie]

12. I hope I finally found the live cd that I can boot to without installing first

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/i386/bt-cd/
this is the link in case anyone else is having a problem finding it as I was.
In my case it would help tremendously if I knew what i was doing but being an old codger I'm not sure I can learn

I'm pretty new to bit torrent and I have to say that is the only way to download anything as I downloaded this boot cd in the matter of minutes where downloading the dvd's 1 & 3 yesterday and the day before it took 5, 6 hours.

Any tips thrown my way will be greatly appreciated.
Hopefully here in a tad I'll be up and running posting using this latest downloaded boot cd that I'm hoping to be able to run from.
Peace

ETA: fuck it. I guess I won't be able to try debian 7 with out installing it first. I've got three disk burned and ready to go and each of them only will let me install, not run the program. What am I doing wrong?

[Phillip McCleod]

13. installing it now on an old pentium 4..

..with minimal setup. i have a half dozen or so (maybe more) 486s around the shop, including a couple rackmount servers. plan is to build a hadoop cluster with em for guerrilla marketing attraction.

yep. i'm making a parallel processing 'super' computer out of outdated equipment. good bet it'll be debian all teh way since i want to match architectures and OSes as close as possible so threads return at about the same time.

[brownjason]

14. wow~

wow,i've been looking forward to it for a long time !

[hrmjustin]

15. Welcome to DU my friend!