“On Friday afternoon, Ian Murdock, the founder of the Debian
GNU/Linux project and co-founder of Progeny, announced a status
update of his company’s Debian work. Murdock made two very
important announcements: the porting of Red Hat’s Anaconda
installer tool to Debian, and a modification of Debian’s APT
package tool which will allow it to use both RedHat and Debian
packages.“The first announcement is most relevant to Debian users, who
have long complained about Debian’s ‘archaic’ installer. Several
‘easy to install’ Debian variants have been created over the years;
none of them has been commercially successful. Progeny Linux was
one of these variants. Despite its excellent installer, Progeny’s
distribution suffered the same fate as many of the other commercial
Debian projects. The company itself lived on, without much
visibility, until today’s announcement…”