A few days ago, the development team of Debian released an update for Debian 7, specifically Debian 7.1, a new update that comes out after a month of life of the default Mother distribution.
In updating Debian 7.1 numerous security issues and bugs are updated in various programs, which are not very important according to the Debian team, I think they are worth noting. Among the affected programs is LibreOffice, Mysql, Alsa, nvidia drivers, php or Xorg, the graphical server.
The update occupies about 50 Mb And, as the official website says, it is not a reason to throw away the set of installation discs, but rather that updating the system once we have installed it will be worth it.
Will Debian end up becoming Ubuntu?
But with all this the controversy opens. The big difference of Debian regarding his daughter Ubuntu is that Debian it offers incredible robustness in exchange for a slow system of updates and revisions, extremely slow for my liking. Without going further, Debian 7 was announced since November 2012 and was launched in May 2013, Almost half a year later !!
Now we find a team that tries to bridge these differences but offering more instability, with which the debate is served
What is preferable, stability or topicality?
Another change that attracted attention in the development of this version of Debian was the default desktop change. Debian version 6 used Gnome 2 while when Debian 7 arrived the current version of Gnome was 3. This raised the question of whether to continue with Gnome or change the desktop. The vast majority opted for Xfce, a lightweight desktop perfect to install as the default desktop, but due to unknown circumstances, the development team finally chose the Gnome option.
And with this, to me, the question arises, Will Debian end up becoming Ubuntu? The possibility, although remote, is there, consolidating itself more and more. These two examples are very good signs that Debian is changing things, but Which way are these things going?
Although I am a great Ubuntu defender, I consider that the Mother Distro, Debian it should continue with its own identity. I know it is annoying that years go by between versions, but more annoying would be to lose all the energy that is being created around the Gnu / Linux community, which is what would happen if we limited ourselves to Debian follow Ubuntu. Each distribution should try to maintain its principles, those that distinguish them from others, otherwise it would not make sense for them to exist. Do not you think? We will see how all this continues and if the Debian development team keeps changing things or maintaining them. By the way, What do you think? Has anyone tried the mother distro or do you not know it? You can tell your experiences, sure that newbies will be of great help.
Post update
This is an update of this post after the comments I have received. Before explaining or talking about the comments I want to apologize and apologize to those Debian users, readers and Debian team who feel or have been offended by my words. My main interest was talking or commenting on an update that had been marked as Debian 7.1. I did not want to offend the great work that is being done with this distribution, and it is not a rally, I know it and that is why I have not doubted that Ubuntu and other distributions use it as a base. Of course my words have not been correct, sorry. As you have pointed out, very well by the way, Debian is not outdated or old, I wanted to refer to the long cycles of the stable distribution. As for the release dates, excuse me, I know I've screwed up. Regarding the "desktop", what I wanted to say is precisely what you have mentioned, Gnome has always been the desktop chosen by Debian, but precisely the fact of consolidating Xfce as a totally viable alternative as it was leaving Gnome is what which I consider a "change." A change that is possible, since Debian is a very democratic distribution, little to do with Canonical, I know, but this change seemed more like a sharp turn than a normal Debian change, although it did not materialize. Even so, the only thing I want to express with these words is sorry if I have offended you in something or everything, it was not my intention or that of the blog, I just wanted to comment on the release of Debian 7.1. I'M SORRY!!!
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Source - Debian News
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