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Progeny Debian 1.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the apt-get-goodness dept.

martins99 writes: "Progeny was released today. It is a commercial dist based on debian but with lots of new stuff which Debian 2.2 (potato) or woody (testing) lacks like: support for 2.4, graphical installation, XFree86 4.02, glibc 2.2. Read more at www.progeny.com." Since Stormix is ailing so badly, I hope Progeny can do better...

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  1. For the record... by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 5

    Debian Woody (aka testing) does have support for 2.4 kernels, glibc 2.2 and XFree86 4.0.2.

    It is correct that none of these are in Potato. However, there are unofficial packages for running 2.4 kernels and XFree86 4 in Potato, both provided by Debian developers.

  2. Re:Can I go back to potato? by steveha · · Score: 5
    I'd really like to check it out, but I also want safe path back.

    The important thing about Progeny is this: it is Debian.

    They didn't screw anything up or glue in something proprietary. It's just a particular set of Debian packages with a nice installer.

    Thus, once you have Progeny set up, you can point your sources.list file at a Debian mirror, and start using apt-get against the Woody package set, and you are using Woody.

    Their installer does create a few icons on the desktop that say Progeny, but if you were really gung-ho about having a non-Progeny Woody system you could delete those.

    As for going back to Potato, it would be just the same as taking a Woody system back to Potato. I have never done it but it would be possible. Just point sources.list at a Potato package set, and use apt-get to get the Potato packages. You will have to force apt-get to "downgrade" since the versions of the packages will be older, but that functionality is supported. It would be something of a pain, and I don't know why you would bother; I'm running Woody unstable and I'm extremely happy with it.

    steveha

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  3. According to packages.debian.org by autechre · · Score: 4

    Woody(testing) does have XFree 4.02, and glibc 2.2. And while there are no kernel-image packages for 2.4, the kernel certainly works just fine (and really, I wouldn't use anything other than a custom-compiled kernel anyway).

    That being said, I see Progeny as a definite Good Thing. Personally, I don't have any problems with the Debian installer, but I understand that some people do; different people approach things from different directions(thus explaining the many window managers in the *nix world). From my experience, Debian is much easier to keep up-to-date once it is installed than any RPM-based distribution, and if more people find that it's also easy to install, great.

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