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Interview with Adam Di Carlo (Debian Boot)

Posted by michael on from the soon-to-be-accomplishable-by-normal-humans dept.

robstah writes: "The installer is the heart of any Operating System, Debian is no different. The mature but ageing boot-floppies installer will rear its head for the last time in woody. In this interview with Adam Di Carlo, one of the lead developers of this system we investigate the past, present and future of the Debian installation system ready for the upcoming release of woody: The next generation of Debian."

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  1. Re:The Installer is... by SpringRevolt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ah yes, so you did.

    Such is the price we pay for anonymous cowardice.

  2. OT: Debian mozilla 0.9.6 anti-aliases!! by Adnans · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yes, go to the Gdkxft site and download/install the 1.4 tarball. Then:

    $ LD_PRELOAD=libgdkxft.so mozilla

    Enjoy a jaggy-less web experience!

    -adnans

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  3. Commodore 64 by Kev+Vance · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Media formats (from hard disk): *.vob, *.mpg, *.mpeg, *.mp3, *.sid

    *.sid? As in the format for ripped C-64 music? Rock on! With 20GB, you could fit every commodore 64 song ever written on the thing.

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  4. XFree86 4.x by w1kL3f · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just got the Debian woody (2.2r4) i386 set of binaries from CheapBytes. Maybe someday when xDSL becomes less of a pain in the ass, I can have all the current packages.

    I was disappointed that the binaries came with XFree86 3.x Why? Can somebody point me to a CD vendor with the latest (latest as in today) images?

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