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The Debian Delay: Is Sarge MIA? Or Simply a POW of Process?

Posted by VISITOR on Mar 4, 2005 3:38 AM EST · 7 comments
Linuxplaent.com; By Sean Michael Kerner

The latest release of Debian Linux, code named "Sarge" was supposed to report for duty at the end of last year. That didn't happen. Why has Sarge been delayed and ultimately does it matter? Debian developers and Debian's founding father talked to LinuxPlanet about Sarge's delay and its ultimate deployment.

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Comments (7)

DaGoodBoy · Mar 4, 2005 4:44 AM EST

It is frickin magic... The whole installer is broken down into configurable components and can be customized all over the place. We are doing automated installations, with pre-seeded answers to configuration options, for a production tablet device with custom packages and post-installation configuration. The debian-installer team needs big kudos for really thinking about what is needed for a great installation architecture. I've used AutoYAST. I've used Kickstart. I ain't going back.

DaGoodBoy

cjcox · Mar 4, 2005 11:04 AM EST

You used AutoYaST? You have my sympathy.

Somewhere the KISS principle died in the middle of designing that thing.

PaulFerris · Mar 4, 2005 11:27 PM EST

cjcox: Man you got that right.

Prometheus · Mar 8, 2005 9:02 AM EST

I've heard of yAST (Suse 9.1, 9.2), but what is AutoyAST?

devnet · Mar 8, 2005 11:52 AM EST

Has anyone seen the Progeny Linux port of Anaconda? It is friggen nice!

PaulFerris · Mar 9, 2005 9:03 AM EST

Prometheus: It's the SuSE implementation of Kickstart. It works, I can attest, but it's painfully overly complex, MHO.

dinotrac · Mar 9, 2005 11:30 AM EST

Paulie --

As opposed pleasantly overly complex?

Or, perhaps,

painfully under-complex?