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Etch Goes Beta

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the shift-your-labels dept.

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Debian 'etch' has finally hit beta (testing) complete with graphical installer. The new version includes a default 2.6 kernel, auto laptop detection, secure apt to verify downloaded packages, improved log file and bug reporting, added language support, and much more.

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  1. That was pretty quick. by The+Nine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seems not so long ago Sarge came out after an eternity of waiting. Good to see things speeding up a bit.

    First post?

  2. debian-installer for etch hits beta by free2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    "debian-installer for etch hits beta" would be a more accurate title.
    etch is "testing" ever since sarge was released as "stable"

  3. testing now with installer and security updates by free2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    This doesn't mean etch will be released as stable soon. All RC bugs will have to be fixed first.
    But since there is now a security team for testing, http://secure-testing-master.debian.net/ ,
    it means you can now install testing and use apt to get security updates.

    "testing" is now a full debian distro (if not official) as are "oldstable", "stable" and "unstable"

    1. Re:testing now with installer and security updates by free2 · · Score: 2, Informative

      http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/GettingMadwifi

  4. Screenshots by xgamer04 · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is one time I wish we did have some screenshots :(

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    1. Re:Screenshots by abdulla · · Score: 2, Informative

      You can check out screenshots of the new graphical installer here.

  5. Story gets it terribly wrong by Florian · · Score: 5, Informative

    The installer for Etch has gone Beta (as it clearly states on the page the story links to), not Etch itself. The Etch release is scheduled for late 2006, which is still an ambitious goal given the amount of necessary work - such as moving all documentation that doesn't meet the Debian Free Software guidelines into non-free.

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  6. Re:Woohoo! Sorta ;) by Tom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why's it taken so long?

    Because a huge part of Debian users couldn't care less about a GUI installer and want more important stuff done first. Most of the machines I put Debian on never switch out of text mode in their entire life, for example, and I'm still happily using dselect and apt-get because it gets the job done and that's all I care for. It'd take longer to find a mouse to plug into that server than it takes to go through a few menues.

    Debian isn't behind, Debian is way ahead of most of the other distros in many ways. And it has other priorities. That's why I use it, that's why most of the people who use Debian use it.

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  7. Ubuntu? by charlie763 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can we expect this in the Ubuntu Dapper release? Many people have been asking a graphical installer while other prefer the non-graphical installer. I just want the option.

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