Kwheezy to change its name to Kebian once Debian Jessie gets stable

In tune with how Kubuntu represents Ubuntu, Kwheezy will most likely change its name to Kebian, once Debian Jessie becomes the stable Debian version. Notably, Kwheezy is a Debian 7 Wheezy fork that uses KDE as the default desktop environment.

Readers will recall that the latest version of the system is Kwheezy 1.5. It is based on Debian 7.4 and uses KDE 4.8.4 as the default DE and kernel 3.2. The Debian Installer team earlier announced the arrival of the first Alpha build of the Debian 8 ‘Jessie’ version. Debian developers are known for releasing highly stable builds. The Debian 8 Jessie Alpha 1 release is therefore being pitched as one that is almost free of all kinks.

It can be recalled that Jessie is the development version of Debian, for which work has been under way for quite some time now. The Debian 8 Jessie Alpha 1 is the first major official release from the Debian stable. The default desktop environment in the new Debian 8 Jessie is Xfce; however, a final decision on the exact environment to be shipped with the final release is expected to come in August 2014. Simply log in to your Ubuntu One account and hit the orange button found under the main notice. You’ll receive all your data as a .zip file. If you’re looking for a direct import tool, Canonical has teamed up with cloud storage migration service, mover.io, for this very purpose. Simply create your account and transfer your data (approx 2 GB) to other services, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, etc, for free. Meanwhile, annual subscribers will receive a pro-rated refund soon.