Debian Installer Lenny Release Candidate 1 | Linux Today

Debian Installer Lenny Release Candidate 1

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 13, 2008

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Michlmayr
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“Improvements in this release of the installer:
– Improved support for Live-CD installation media (much faster and
more reliable than earlier releases);
– Support for some NAS devices based on Marvell’s ARM-compatible
Orion chip: QNAP TS-109/TS-209 and TS-409; HP Media Vault mv2120;
Buffalo Kurobox Pro;
– Installer images for Netwinder have been added again;
– Installer images for i386 Xen guests
– Support for hardware speech synthesis (speakup) has been
added;
– Upgrade of packages early in pkgsel, for example to get available
security updates for base system packages;
– Support for loading firmware from (removable) media during the
installation;
– i386/amd64: support for installing to and loading firmware from
MMC/SD cards;
– New translations: Welsh, Irish, Northern Sami, Serbian (Amharic
and Marathi were added in beta releases).”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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