Linux Weekly News has a segment on the beta in their most recent weekly edition. It's generally positive, they apparently did a CD install and aside from the standard dhcp annoyance, it Just Worked. Most of their complaints are about base-config, but not all: "However, the user is still expected to know much more about the distribution and hardware when installing Debian Sarge than if they install Fedora, SUSE, Mandrake or even Slackware. Users are asked to make a lot of decisions during the installation, and if unfamiliar with the terminology, they will undoubtedly be intimidated." I suspect this article would have been more positive there if they had not had to go through cfdisk and had the option to use autopartkit instead. Of course it misses most of the advantages and improvements of d-i, but that is not suprising. Overall they conclude that "Debian-installer is definitely an improvement, and it looks to be very stable." Contrast with some review of the Progeny anaconda port in the same article, which is "to say the least, not quite ready for prime-time". Unfortunatly no hardware details accompnyed the article, so this cannot be a proper install report. :-) -- see shy jo
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