Debian 7.3 is out
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