Major New Features in Debian Etch

Major New Features in Debian Etch 167

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 17, 2006 @09:08AM from the spurred-by-the-offshoots dept.

Klaidas writes "Linux.com reports that the third beta of Debian Etch installer (released August 11, 2006) has some major new features, which might make this version of Debian the easiest to install. According to the original announcement, we will now be able to install using a graphical user interface on i386 and amd64 platforms. We will also be able to set up encrypted partitions during installation. Debian Etch is scheduled to be released on December 2006"

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Oh, wow... (Score:5, Funny)

by __aaclcg7560 ( 824291 ) writes: on Thursday August 17, 2006 @09:11AM (#15926051)

Etch-A-Sketch runs Debian?!

Monitor (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday August 17, 2006 @09:17AM (#15926083)

> The installer is designed to work at a resolution of 600x800

Hm, looks like a rotated old LCD monitor.

Graphical Install For Debian?!? Bah!! (Score:5, Funny)

by RobotRunAmok ( 595286 ) writes: on Thursday August 17, 2006 @09:19AM (#15926093)

I am teh Old Skool. Any Debian installation that does not require lamb's blood, sulfur, salt, mercury, a transcription from the original Assyrian, Fermat's Enigma, and a Circle of Power etched in holy chalk consecrated on Michaelmas is a Debian installation for which I have no use.

Friggin' noobs...

Re:Graphical Install For Debian?!? Bah!! (Score:5, Funny)

by pb ( 1020 ) writes: on Thursday August 17, 2006 @09:40AM (#15926195)

Hah, you had it easy--in my day, we had to use dselect!

About time (Score:4, Funny)

by makomk ( 752139 ) writes: on Thursday August 17, 2006 @09:46AM (#15926220) Journal

I mean, even Gentoo has a graphical install now (though not a very user-friendly one, of course...)

Re:Newsflash (Score:2, Funny)

by mverwijs ( 815917 ) writes: on Thursday August 17, 2006 @09:46AM (#15926228) Homepage

FTA:

About 35 minutes after I slipped the CD into my drive, I was looking at a GNOME 2.1.4

So it would actually be 2002. ;-)

Where's the screen shots? (Score:3, Funny)

by 9Nails ( 634052 ) writes: on Thursday August 17, 2006 @09:56AM (#15926283)

This article is worthless without pictures!

There is a catch using the new installer. (Score:3, Funny)

by stsp ( 979375 ) writes: on Thursday August 17, 2006 @10:05AM (#15926348) Homepage

The catch is that you need to tilt your monitor.

From TFA:
The installer is designed to work at a resolution of 600x800;

Re:Scrolling (Score:5, Funny)

by spongman ( 182339 ) writes: on Thursday August 17, 2006 @10:57AM (#15926744)

apt-get update
apt-get install scroll-knobs

Re:Graphical Install For Debian?!? Bah!! (Score:4, Funny)

by Chris Burke ( 6130 ) writes: on Thursday August 17, 2006 @11:43AM (#15927111) Homepage

And for those of you who are noobs, here is how to install Linux on a dead badger.

Heh, my work place's web proxy blocked the site with the following message (emaphasis unchanged): "The site you requested is blocked under the following categories: Criminal Skills"

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Oh, wow... (Score:5, Funny)

Monitor (Score:4, Funny)

Graphical Install For Debian?!? Bah!! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Graphical Install For Debian?!? Bah!! (Score:5, Funny)

About time (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Newsflash (Score:2, Funny)

Where's the screen shots? (Score:3, Funny)

There is a catch using the new installer. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Scrolling (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Graphical Install For Debian?!? Bah!! (Score:4, Funny)

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