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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. 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

    --
    "In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people." --Linus Torvalds