Wheezy user here!! The best Debian thus far! Will not trust my machine to any other!
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Shyamal Prasad <shya...@member.fsf.org>wrote: > > >>>>> "Darac" == Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> writes: > > Darac> On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 01:49:56AM +1030, Mikael Livchenko > wrote: > >> > >> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual > >> > >> "Debian wheezy -- Installation Guide" > >> > >> What is Debian wheezy? I only downloaded 'Debian 7'. > > Darac> Wheezy is a brand. It's not really any different than "Snow > Darac> Leopard" or "XP". Do you expect people to care that one is > Darac> "10.6.8" and the other "5.1.2600"? > > Mikael makes a good point even if the tone in the rest of his email was > totally uncalled for (and, IMHO, plain wrong - mailing lists rule, > dude!). > > Debian does not need to follow the stupidity that Apple and Microsoft > have blessed us with. Call it "Wheezy." Or call it "Debian 7.0." Or > even "Debian 7.0/Wheezy." But not two different names, both seemingly > randomly used in different parts of the same documentation chain, for > the same stable release. It brings no value to anyone who is not > intimately familiar with the development process (i.e. users). > > I've used and evangalized Debian for over 15 years now, and I believe > this is the one complaint that never seems to go away! Though that only > goes to show what an awesome distribution it is :-) > > Cheers (and congratulations to y'all on releasing Wheezy)! > Shyamal > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehdh2clj....@dallas.rhythmnetworks.com > >
