Re: Progeny Debian Beta 2 now available
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:57:22AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Some of the features of this release:
>
> - graphical install using GTK+
>
> - noninteractive installation (for clusters and server farms)
>
> - debconfization of many packages
>
> - a GNOME front end to debconf
>
> - GTK+-based "configlets" for several critical aspects of system
> configuration (time/date, MTA, network setup, XFree86) using debconf on
> the back end
>
> - boot support via GRUB, including (optional) automatic migration
> from LILO
>
> - hardware autodetection (based on the "detect" library)
Sounds very interesting indeed! Since all this seems to be DFSG free and
solves many of the (alleged) installation problems for Debian-newbies,
I would like to know if there are any plans already to incorporate these
goodies into Debian for the next release.
Cheers,
Guenter
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