blog/data/2013-05-05-debian-wheezy-release.txt

   1 Title: Debian Wheezy is out - and Debian Edu / Skolelinux should soon follow! #newinwheezy
   2 Tags: english, debian, debian edu
   3 Date: 2013-05-05 07:40
   4
   5 <p>When I woke up this morning, I was very happy to see that the
   6 <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504">release announcement
   7 for Debian Wheezy</a> was waiting in my mail box.  This is a great
   8 Debian release, and I expect to move my machines at home over to it fairly
   9 soon.</p>
  10
  11 <p>The new debian release contain heaps of new stuff, and one program
  12 in particular make me very happy to see included.  The
  13 <a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/">Scratch</a> program, made famous by
  14 the <a href="http://www.code.org/">Teach kids code</a> movement, is
  15 included for the first time.  Alongside similar programs like
  16 <a href="http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/">kturtle</a> and
  17 <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art">turtleart</a>,
  18 it allow for visual programming where syntax errors can not happen,
  19 and a friendly programming environment for learning to control the
  20 computer.  Scratch will also be included in the next release of Debian
  21 Edu.</a>
  22
  23 <p>And now that Wheezy is wrapped up, we can wrap up the next Debian
  24 Edu/Skolelinux release too.  The
  25 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/04/msg00132.html">first
  26 alpha release</a> went out last week, and the next should soon
  27 follow.<p>