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Debian Installer RC1 Is Out

Posted by timothy on from the smoosh-it-onto-a-machine dept.

rekt writes "The Debian crew has just announced the release of debian-installer RC1. You can find versions of it for 11 different architectures at the d-i page. This is one of the most flexible, modular installer architectures out there. As we near the release of sarge (debian 3.1) next month, it's important that we find and work out any bugs in the installer. Grab a copy and give it a shot!"

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  1. Full RC1 torrents. by eddy · · Score: 5, Informative

    .. available at suprnova.org.

    Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Release Candidate 1 - CD 1 of 12 ...

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    1. Re:Full RC1 torrents. by eddy · · Score: 5, Informative

      The question of checking the signature after download not withstanding, if you check the torrent you'll see that the tracker is... cdimage.debian.org.

      It's up to you to decide if that's "official enough".

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      Belief is the currency of delusion.
  2. Security Support for Sarge by arturogatti · · Score: 5, Informative

    Security support for sarge is scheduled to begin today. Woody users may want to consider upgrading to sarge now, testing the upgrade path, and help out with reporting/fixing any bugs they encounter.

  3. Screenshots by adun · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://people.debian.org/~madduck/d-i/screenshots/

    Because I love all of you.

  4. I've given it a shot by Avian+visitor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Grab a copy and give it a shot!

    I've downloaded a copy, burned it on a CD and gave it a few shots.

    This is the result.

  5. Debian woes by vuvewux · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sort of new to this linux thing, but there's this directory on my new install of Debian 3.1 called "/usr/bin". It was all messed up when I first went in there. None of the files had descriptive names, and it took me like an hour to figure out they were executables, since none of them had .exe on the end of them. Furthermore, whenever I double click them, they just pop up a command prompt for a few seconds then go away.

    I was gonna delete them, but I got kinda afraid that they might be my kernel, so I fiugred I'd ask. It's ok to delete this stuff, right?

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  6. History of the Installer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the summary of the debian-installer from one of the main developers...

    Joey Hess blog entry: http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/d-i_retrospect ive-2004-08-07-19-46.html

    //fatal

  7. Re:Isn't it time... by davegaramond · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, yes, parent is a troll. But...

    Debian (stable) is geared towards server, the whole Gentoo thing is geared towards desktop or experimental.

    Debian has always had the philosophy of free distribution and legal safety, I've seen none of this in Gentoo. I love the Debian philosophy.

    Debian is a mature distribution with a strict QA, I still don't believe Gentoo has a decent QA "department" at all.

    None of the datacenters/dedicated servers facility that I know offer Gentoo, for each one you mention supporting Gentoo, I can name 25 supporting Debian.

    Gentoo has bleeding edge stuffs, that's why I don't want it.

    Debian has complete support forum (debianplanet), a portal (debianplanet), ten times the number of mailing lists than Gentoo, local user groups, not to mention SEVERAL newsletters with real content.

    Debian has Knoppix, etc based on it.

    Debian has at least twice the number of worldwide mirrors compared to Gentoo;

    As for "versions", you can upgrade from between Debian versions pretty much seamlessly.