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Debian win32-loader Goes Official
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."
Since none of the links in the story explain what the win32-loader is, can anyone explain what it does?
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http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/win32-loader
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
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.
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.
Ran the win32 loader on a test-VM here at work. Pretty quick and painless, 4-5 prompts, 45 seconds of downloading, a reboot and debian was installing. However it was interesting to note that administrative privileges on the Win32 OS are not required. Not that big of a deal for most users, but could prove troublesome in some environments (Corporate, etc).
Launch every sig.
He must be married.
Mr. Windows partition, meet Mr. fdisk.
Sid ain't so bad. The system itself is quite stable. What's not is the package repository. Once in a while a large update will present some conflicts in dependency resolution. This will prevent you from completing the update until it's fixed in the repository, but it leaves your system in a usable state. Not really a big deal. For most purposes Sid is an excellent choice. I wouldn't put it on a production server however.
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>> by aswalkeraus (563276) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 13, @11:07AM (#20588309)
>>Seriously.... apt-get hell awaits,
Thats the first time I heard that expression, not a total surprise I guess; google says:
Results 1 - 10 of about 558 for "apt-get hell". (0.30 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 16,000 for "rpm hell". (0.12 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 208,000 for "dll hell". (0.07 seconds)
btw. see how much longer it takes google to even come up with the list for apt-get,
"better ways of doing things eventually just replace the inferior things" - Linus Torvalds 09-08-07
My first thought following the link is that this is a virus. When I follow a link that says "Good bye Windows" which wants to launch an .EXE with no explanation, what else would I think?
I run Ubuntu in VMware. I thought from the article that perhaps I could run Windows programs inside Linux with this. Another WINE.
He must be married.
This is slashdot you inconsiderate fool.
Infuriate left and right
What I find interesting is the potential for "Linux Phishing" or "Linux Greifing" that this creates. There are already plenty of problems with various viruses loading directly through the browser in Windows, can you imagine what would happen if a "religious Linux fanatic" were to take this, alter it to use a known but unpatched IE vulnerability to auto-install and reboot people's machines into Linux? What would happen if a "religious Microsoft fanatic" did the same thing to try and make Linux look bad?
I've got a baaaad feeling about this...
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This scenario was labeled the "Tux Virus" many years ago.
Typically, the scenario involved a win95 themed wm and a far-fetched belief that wine or openoffice could allow the user to be fooled at least briefly.
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