Debian Lenny Installer RC1 Arrives

nerdyH writes "It appears that Debian 5.0 (aka "Lenny") will soon take its big binocular eyes out into the wider world. Only two months later than expected, the Debian project has completed the first release candidate of Lenny's installer. Featuring much faster installation from "live" CDs, and expanded support for ARM-based devices such as NAS servers, Lenny has gestated for 19 months, compared to 21 months for the previous "Etch" release. Lookout, world, Debian releases are picking up speed! The download is here."

Comments

Don't install Lenny!

[Anonymous Coward]

It has very poor mouse support.

Re:why bother with a liveCD?

[mpapet]

I've been a Lenny user for at least 6 months and performed a number of server and desktop installs with some versions of the new installer.

The most important part of the installer that has changed for the better is you can easily start the installation by selecting from gui and text options from a menu. The Etch installer you had to type something to start the installer.

The Lenny installer runs circles around the Ubuntu installer. Among other cool details you can configure LVM, or software raids prior to the disk formatting and installation.

I got KDE4 packages from http://kde4.debian.net/ Absolutely the best way to go for kde4.

Re:What about bugs?

[jonadab]

> What about release critical bugs? Currently there are 173 of them:

Most of those bugs are not in the installer. If you read the summary (not even the actual article, just the summary) carefully, you'll note that this is a release candidate of the *installer*, not of the whole distro. I would imagine the distribution as a whole is probably still on schedule for the originally promised timeframe of "when it's ready".