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A few historical bits about d-i development
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No idea where this will lead us, but on a quiet morning in July 2005,
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I imagined it would be worth keeping track of D-I history, so I just
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started this document to keep the information I've found.
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Please throw in any interesting information you might have. We'll
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think about organizing this stuff as soon as we have enough material.
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Original announcement of the D-I project - June 20th 2000
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First mention found: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/06/msg00279.html
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Interesting quote from it: Joey Hess said '..."debian-installer", or
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some actual cool name someone comes up with. I hate naming
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projects. :-)'.
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It seems that the name was quite good after all...as we kept it up to now.
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The "first" things
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First "weekly" status report - November 1st 2000:
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/11/msg00006.html
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First udeb uploads - December 12th 2000:
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00336.html
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First D-I team meeting - December 9th 2000:
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00276.html
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No meeting minutes found up to now..:-)
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First appearance of the graphical frontend - December 27th 2000:
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00547.html
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First successful (cough) "installation report" - February 14th 2001:
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/02/msg00503.html
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First mention of devfs (aaaargh) - February 21st 2001
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/02/msg00747.html
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First "new" tasksel - May 9th 2001
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/05/msg00162.html
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/05/msg00513.html
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First tzconfig using debconf - June 10th 2001
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/06/msg00490.html
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First Debian derived distribution wanting to use D-I - July 28th 2001
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/07/msg00717.html
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First message to debian-boot by Frans Pop - March 1st 2004
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/03/msg00045.html
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D-I repository moved from CVS to Subversion - March 21st 2004
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/03/msg02586.html
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First political struggle around D-I - April 5th 2004
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/04/msg00438.html
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Second political struggle around D-I - Sep 23th 2004
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09/msg01324.html
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First message to debian-boot by Attilio Fiandrotti and begin of
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the "g-i aka graphical installer" revival story - March 31st 2005
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/03/msg01184.html
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Base-config removed - Dec 21st 2005
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg00917.html
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First daily builds with the graphical installer included - May 17th 2006
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/05/msg00659.html
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D-I repository switched to use git - January 17th 2011
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2011/01/msg00748.html
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Status reports
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First status report:
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/11/msg00006.html
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Following progress reports:
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00020.html (Dec 1st 2000)
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00338.html (Dec 12th 2000)
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/02/msg00591.html (Feb 16th 2001)
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/07/msg00714.html (Jul 26th 2001)
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/07/msg00013.html
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/08/msg00004.html
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/10/msg00007.html
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/11/msg00011.html
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/02/msg00013.html
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/07/msg00431.html
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<to be continued>
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Debian-installer releases:
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First alpha: December 8th 2002
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/12/msg00002.html
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Sarge installer beta1: November 9th 2003
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/11/msg00003.html
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- i386 and PowerPC only
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Sarge installer beta2: January 14th 2004
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/01/msg00006.html
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- install from USB storage
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- all errata from beta1 fixed
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Sarge installer beta3: March 16th 2004
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/03/msg00013.html
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- new partitioner with menus (partman)
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- support wireless
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- 2.4.25 kernel, eearly SATA support
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- more arches: ia64, sparc, m68k, mips, alpha
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- boot logo
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- installation manual
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- Languages: 35
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Sarge installer beta4: April 30th 2004
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/04/msg00025.html
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- New architectures: arm, hppa, mipsel
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- detection of other OS
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- experimental support for kernel 2.6
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- new boot logo
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- Languages: 38
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Sarge installer Release Candidate 1: August 7th 2004
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/08/msg00004.html
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- All 11 arches supported
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- install 2.6 on i386 is OK
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- Languages: 40
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Sarge installer Release Candidate 2: November 22th 2004
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/11/msg00010.html
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- Support LVM on software RAID
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- Fix RC1 errata
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- Languages: 40
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Sarge installer Release Candidate 3: March 23th 2004
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/03/msg00764.html
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- Ready for shipping!
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Sarge release: June 6th 2005
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http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050606
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- Languages: 40
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Etch installer beta1: November 12th 2005
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00008.html
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- Install 2.6 by default
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- Rescue mode
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- Alpha release of the graphical installer
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- Improved locale/timezone/clock settings
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- Automatic laptop detection
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- Languages: 49
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Etch installer beta2: March 15th 2006
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00013.html
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- Die, base-config, die! One stage installation
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- Switch to udev
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- Installed system is UTF-8 by default
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- Languages: 51
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Etch installer beta3: August 11th 2006
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/08/msg00009.html
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- Integration of graphical installer for i386 and powerpc
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- Encrypted partitions support
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- Languages: 60
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Etch installer Release Candidate 1: November 13th, 2006
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/11/msg00003.html
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- Automated partitionins supports LVM+crypto
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- Support for preseeded software RAID on multiple disk setups
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- Languages: 61
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Etch installer Release Candidate 2: March 19th, 2007
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http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2007/20070319
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- Support resize of NTFS partitions
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- Improved support for visually impaired users (high contrast)
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- Languages: 65
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Etch release: April 8th, 2007
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http://www.us.debian.org/News/2007/20070408
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- Languages: 57 (some were disabled)
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Lenny installer beta1: March 17th, 2008
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/03/msg00012.html
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- support fod CD/DVD is back
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- clock sync with NTP
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- volatile support
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- win32-loader integrated
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- SATA RAID support
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- Languages: 58
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Lenny installer Release Candidate 1: November 12th, 2008
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/11/msg00002.html
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- support for Live CD
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- loading firmware from removable media
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- integration of hardware speech synthesis
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- Languages: 62
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Lenny installer Release Candidate 2: January 31st, 2009
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/01/msg00009.html
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- improved brltty (Braille devices)
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- improved fallback to English when translations are incomplete
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- Languages: 63
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Lenny release: February 14th, 2009
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http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214
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- Languages: 63
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Squeeze installer Alpha 1: February 10th, 2010
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/02/msg00011.html
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- help during installation process
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- installation of recommended packages
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- improvementsin language/country/locale selection
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- improved mirror selection
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- option to select "UTC" timezone
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- ext4 support in partman
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- Languages: 66 (Asturian, Estonian, Kazakh)
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Squeeze installer Beta 1: October 30th, 2010
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/10/msg00013.html
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- support for isohybrid images to improve USB stick installs
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- support for firmware .deb files in firmware/ on installation media
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- Support for Guruplug and OpenRD-Ultimate
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- Languages: 67 (Kannada, Persian, Telugu. Dropped Wolof, Welsh)
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Squeeze installer Beta 2: December 8th, 2010
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/12/msg00001.html
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- improved OS detection
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- ZFS support in kfreebsd-* (later disabled on i386)
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- improved USB CD-ROM detection
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- Languages: 67
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Squeeze installer Release Candidate 1: January 12th, 2011
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/01/msg00002.html
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- uses Squeeze artwork theme
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- support new suite name for volatile
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- many hardware support fixes
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- many fixes for release critical bugs
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- Languages: 70 (Lao, Sinhala). 100% complete for 57.
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Squeeze installer Release Candidate 2: January 22th, 2011
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/01/msg00005.html
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- fix keyboard configuration for several languages
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- final set of release critical fixes
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- Languages: 70
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