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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."

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  1. Info: by WK2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    win32-loader is a Windows program that installs debian. That has already been said. One might also wonder why a windows program that installs debian would actually be installed in debian.

    For 1, it is not included in Lenny like the summary says:
    http://packages.debian.org/win32-loader
    It is only included in sid, for now.

    Debian regularly includes debian installer packages in debian. Developers who create release CDs do so by creating a custom debian installation, with these debian installer packages (on CD). These packages are usually not useful on a regular user's primary system.

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  2. Re:Huh? by 8-bitDesigner · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh Ubiquity, how we love you. I may need to install Ubuntu again, so I'll need to break out the chicken bones and juju baggie to appease that wonderful program soon.

  3. anti-Windows virus? by Wolfger · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How long until some well-meaning but unscrupulous virus writer creates a virus with this Debian install as a payload?

    I'm not sure if that would be a bad thing or a good thing...

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