IIRC the Progeny installer was i386 only, hence the Debian folks couldn't use it, since the ditro supports numerous architectures. The article doesn't say, but I imagine since RedHat also supports several archs, Anaconda for Debian will as well.
Hell, I ran this box for something like 13 months before I knew what X or kde(1.0 days). I was like 'Woa! Linux can do this?'
That sounds an awful lot like my first GNU/Linux experience. I downloaded the floppies and installed on a Compaq 386, sometime around 96-97, got the base install, booted to a command prompt and was like "okay, now what do I do?" Learned a ton, and I try the new version of Mandrake/RedHat/et.al. when they're released, but always wind up back on Debian. Even with apt available for RPM it's not the same.
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IIRC the Progeny installer was i386 only, hence the Debian folks couldn't use it, since the ditro supports numerous architectures. The article doesn't say, but I imagine since RedHat also supports several archs, Anaconda for Debian will as well.
Hell, I ran this box for something like 13 months before I knew what X or kde(1.0 days). I was like 'Woa! Linux can do this?' That sounds an awful lot like my first GNU/Linux experience. I downloaded the floppies and installed on a Compaq 386, sometime around 96-97, got the base install, booted to a command prompt and was like "okay, now what do I do?" Learned a ton, and I try the new version of Mandrake/RedHat/et.al. when they're released, but always wind up back on Debian. Even with apt available for RPM it's not the same.