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Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 7 Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Debian on 4 July 2016 at 08:38 AM EDT. Add A Comment

The seventh alpha release of the Debian Installer for Stretch is now available.

With Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 7 the switch has been made from Linux 4.5 to Linux 4.6, the Debian kFreeBSD kernel is now from FreeBSD 10.3, and there is now MIPS64EL support. There is also now EFI detection on armhf, other EFI improvements, and the U-Boot code has support now for the NVIDIA Jetson TX1 and ODROID XU3 targets.

More details on this updated alpha release of Debian Installer can be found via this mailing list announcement.

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