Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon May 6 13:33:23 UTC 2013


On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 07:13:40AM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> Just to note, Debian 7.0 "Wheezy " has been released, with the
> official announcement being here:
> http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504 .
> 
> Something I noticed of interest in the release party list is the
> number of release parties by country (see:
> http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyWheezy). According to the list NO
> country is having more release parties than Canada and only India is
> tied with Canada. So, the Canadian cities that have release parties
> planned are Kitchener-Waterloo, Montreal, Quebec City, and Toronto.
> 
> I have downloaded the CD images for the i386 and AMD64. I'll burn a
> few copies of each for this evening's party, but this is where the
> torrents come into their own...

This is Debian.  Torrents are the worst method to use.  Jigdo is the
best if you absolutely have to have full images.  Netinstall is of course
what most people use and the most efficient.

We run a local mirror at work, and jigdo can generate any disc image
from that in seconds.

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