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Ubuntu Beware: Installing Debian with Anaconda

Posted by timothy on from the hey-we're-all-in-the-same-gang dept.

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."

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  1. A little more info by JavaRob · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I jumped over to the Progeny Linux website and found no mention of much of anything useful... you click on Products and Services and they just mention they provide security fixes for old RedHat distros. Okay...
    Here's their actual download page for the ISOs, and the distro description page. It mentions a bit more about what you're getting -- for one, this is RC-1 (not the release yet). More detail:
    Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition aims to provide an unmatched "out of the box" environment for software developers building applications for the Java, Mono/.NET and LAMP platforms. Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition also serves as a showcase for Componentized Linux and includes all Componentized Linux technologies. As such, it is also an excellent development platform for builders of Componentized Linux based custom distributions.
    I'm probably going to try it out (I'm a Java and LAMP developer..); I might wait for the release, though.