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Debian 7.3 is out

by duggieawesome on 12/15/13, 9:45 PM with 66 comments

  • by jlgaddis on 12/15/13, 9:51 PM

    Better link with more info: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214

  • by nkuttler on 12/15/13, 11:10 PM

    It has already been said, but this is just a point release. If you keep your Debian system up to date (which you should) you'll only get a few new packages.

    See also https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases

  • by RexRollman on 12/16/13, 1:46 AM

    I recently gave Debian a try and one thing that surprised me, coming from Arch, is that the tool to install software, apt-get, can't list what software has already been installed. You have to use dkpg to get that information.

    Even funnier, I found the answer for that on the Arch Wiki page on Pacmac Rosetta:

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta

  • by arc_of_descent on 12/16/13, 6:20 AM

    Since I do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade almost regularly, I found out that my system was already running 7.3 (cat /etc/debian_version). So yes, this is not a major upgrade release just that the Debian team thought that there were enough changes and bug fixes to label this as a new release.

  • by plg on 12/15/13, 11:18 PM

    Can anyone point me to a step by step for how to get debian running on a macbook air? I've googled it and tried at least 4 different approaches, to no avail. I'm talking about a macbookair3,1 (late 2010 11").

  • by alecco on 12/16/13, 1:15 AM

    Anybody knows if the kernel version was bumped?