Ubuntu Beware: Installing Debian with Anaconda

Chris writes "Progeny Linux does Debian one step better. If you like Ubuntu you'll love Progeny. A slick GNOME desktop, a solid Debian core, and the Anaconda installer have made Progeny my new desktop of choice. Progeny has also recently become part of the Linux Core Consortium (LCC) to implement Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0. Watch your back Ubuntu for Progeny's new 'Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition RC1' release. At OSDir we just had to install this distro, and take some screenshots. Our screenshot tour will take you from boot, through the installation, to the desktop. Then we'll have a look at the taskbar, menus, system configuration, and a few of the newly added features of this great distro."

Comments

Difference much?

[jgaynor]

Pardon me but I don't see much of a difference here . . .

1) Debian
2) Gnome
3) Easy installation
4) Profit?

So it's got LSB standardization - Yay. With an hour of work I bet you could turn either into the other. Why the hard sell? I'm not a fanboy of either but bickering about distros does nothing but fragment the userbase at large.

In other news, by the time I'm done writing this someone will probably have posted why gentoo is superior to both of these.

Re:Difference much?

[theantix]

You're right, the two projects have seemingly a lot in common with either other. So long as they both contribute bugfixes and upgrades back to Debian proper, does it really matter that the userbase is fragmented? If someone using Progeny Debian Gnome files a bug report that gets fixed back to Debian, which is also fixed in Ubuntu -- does it really matter to me that they weren't using Ubuntu?

The fact is, these new Debian/Gnome distros (UserLinux too) are all working together. Any extra engineering and quality assurance that these distributions all provide should be appreciated by all the parties involved.

Re:pleasures of OSS

[FlipmodePlaya]

To clarify, Anaconda is Red Hat's installer... Check the Wikipedia article here. Note that the article actually mentions Progeny, as well as a Gentoo distro using the installer. The inspiration for the name was pretty cool, as well. Some other child of the grand-parent implied that Anaconda was 'Gnome based', and I believe they meant GTK...

Re:Easy install Debian?

[burns210]

The article says 'with anaconda'... Anaconda is the redhat-used installed for their distro. Also used by gentoo and fedora.

Re: rc1 ISO images

[cyber_rigger]

ISOs

http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/linux/iso-i386/

Feeling Warm and Fuzzy?

[reallocate]

>> "This isn't like your standard corporate system where you have to root for your competitors to lose. With this diversity, we all win."

Geez, I bet you feel so warm and fuzzy all over. Remind me never to hire you.

Get a clue: Ubuntu is a product of the Canonical Corporation, as in "Corporation". It is backed by South African Mark Shuttlesworth, a rather wealthy guy you may have heard about when he bought a $20 million joyride to orbit. I have no reason to doubt his sincerity about all this "ubuntu philosophy" stuff, but it is a common advertising hook in South Africa.

Linux distributions should be judged on their technical and aesthetic merits, not on the pseudo-philosophical image they project for PR purposes. (You do understand that Progeny's site is designed to appeal to the market they want to sell to, and that Ubuntu's site is designed to appeal to people like you? You're being manipulated in either case.)