Ubuntu Beware: Installing Debian with Anaconda

Chris writes "Progeny Linux does Debian one step better. If you like Ubuntu you'll love Progeny. A slick GNOME desktop, a solid Debian core, and the Anaconda installer have made Progeny my new desktop of choice. Progeny has also recently become part of the Linux Core Consortium (LCC) to implement Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0. Watch your back Ubuntu for Progeny's new 'Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition RC1' release. At OSDir we just had to install this distro, and take some screenshots. Our screenshot tour will take you from boot, through the installation, to the desktop. Then we'll have a look at the taskbar, menus, system configuration, and a few of the newly added features of this great distro."

pleasures of OSS

[ilyaa1]

Looking at those screenshots, it's interesting how the installer, for instance, is essentially copied from RedHat. I suppose that's the pleasure of OSS - you can take the best of what's around, and if you know a better way to put it all together - do it.

From Ian Murdock

[Jacked]

Not necessarily relevant, but, I find it interesting that Progeny was founded by the creator of Debian: Ian Murdock.

Their web site: http://www.progeny.com/ [progeny.com]

features ?

[kayen_telva]

any humans install this yet ? the screenshot borgs dont dole out any real info ;) j/k
does it have nice "control panels" like mandrake,
suse and mepis have to setup various hardware and service options ?
selinux ? support options ? apt-get and debian source compatibility ?
visit the site right? already there. I'll let you know what I find..

how is this an ubuntu competitor ??

[kayen_telva]

from the progeny website:
"aims to provide an unmatched "out of the box" environment for software
developers building applications for the Java, Mono/.NET and LAMP platforms."

A little more info

[JavaRob]

I jumped over to the Progeny Linux website [progeny.com] and found no mention of much of anything useful... you click on Products and Services and they just mention they provide security fixes for old RedHat distros. Okay...
Here's their actual download page for the ISOs, [componentizedlinux.org] and the distro description page [componentizedlinux.org]. It mentions a bit more about what you're getting -- for one, this is RC-1 (not the release yet). More detail:

Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition aims to provide an unmatched "out of the box" environment for software developers building applications for the Java, Mono/.NET and LAMP platforms. Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition also serves as a showcase for Componentized Linux and includes all Componentized Linux technologies. As such, it is also an excellent development platform for builders of Componentized Linux based custom distributions.

I'm probably going to try it out (I'm a Java and LAMP developer..); I might wait for the release, though.

Vs. Ubuntu

[dorward]

Ubuntu has a pretty transparent development process (yeah for mailing lists and development sources lists for apt) and is promising a regular (and reasonably frequent) release cycle.

I don't see mention of anything like this for Progeny yet. So its less attractive then Ubuntu to me right now.