Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> writes: > Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: >> I would like to hear what are the most important changes between woody and >> sarge. What do you say if someone ask you "what's new in sarge?" ;) >> >> I know, we've got new, incredible installer. >> We've got plenty new packages, and updated versions of old packages. >> Most of Debian tools have been improved, and some new tools appeared. >> >> Could someone describe them more verbosely? >> What exacly has changed between woody and sarge? >> >> Don't get me wrong. I don't want to start a flamewar or something like that. >> Someone asked me question from the subject and I have problems answering >> it. I mean using sid on my home box everyday makes many changes invisible >> for me, and I don't want to skip anything. >> Maybe preparation of the list of new features in sarge would be nice idea. >> Maybe such list exists already? > > Not that I know of, but I would be interested in it as well. > > One very important feature is hardware detection in the installer > and including some X configuration. > > Others probably include the Debian-Edu/Skolelinux and debian-med efforts > which boosted the number of educational packages and those with a medical > background. Not to forget the Debian-Accessibility[1] effort which boosted the number of packages available for people with disabilities (gnopernicus, screader, yasr, eflite, speakup, gok and dasher, just to name a few). GNOME is now the first Linux GUI desktop with enough underlying accessibility support to make a screen reader for the blind possible. [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/ -- CYa, Mario
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