Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Debian win32-loader Goes Official

Posted by kdawson on from the like-a-live-cd-on-steroids dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After a long process of review and polishing, the win32 loader from goodbye-microsoft.com has finally made its way to official Debian CDs. Latest daily builds of lenny (the development version) are including it, making starting Debian Installer as simple as just a few clicks (OGG). The win32-loader version, now based on GRUB 2, includes new features such as detection and pre-seeding of Windows settings, and is translated to 20 languages."

10 of 246 comments (clear)

  1. EULA by thegnu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone remember to click right through the EULA like they do in the instructional video, or it won't work. :)

    --
    Please stop stalking me, bro.
  2. Well that's a bummer. by kwabbles · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't have any Windows machines to test it out on.

    Will this work in Wine? :)

    Seriously though - nice work, guys.

    --
    Just disrupt the deflector shield with a tachyon burst.
  3. Re:the win32 debian package by frinkacheese · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now it just needs to be intergrated into a virus/worm the the whole windows world will be converted!

  4. Re:What? by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    He must be married.

  5. I still prefer my method by boudie2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mr. Windows partition, meet Mr. fdisk.

    1. Re:I still prefer my method by gnuman99 · · Score: 2, Funny

      You're too kind. I just use,

      Mr. Windows partition, meet Mr. dd and Mr. /dev/zero

  6. No no no by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    He must be married.

    This is slashdot you inconsiderate fool.

    --
    Infuriate left and right
  7. No no no to your "No no no" by Mark_in_Brazil · · Score: 2, Funny

    He must be married.
    This is slashdot you inconsiderate fool.
    Um... this is Slashdot. Here we use a slightly different term, you insensitive clod!
    --
    "It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too." --Eugene Wigner
    1. Re:No no no to your "No no no" by johnw · · Score: 2, Funny

      Young people today! They don't know they're born.

      Now when I started using Slashdot we had to walk both ways in the snow,.*()^(^&%*%^$
      NO CARRIER

    2. Re:No no no to your "No no no" by Paul+Crowley · · Score: 2, Funny

      Never start this game - you always get trumped :-)

      *waits*

      --
      Xenu loves you!