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Debian Installer Preps For 8.0 Jessie With Beta 2 Release

Written by Michael Larabel in Debian on 6 October 2014 at 08:29 AM EDT. 3 Comments

Debian's installer is up to its second beta for the 8.0 Jessie release cycle.

Significant about the Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 is that it defaults again to using the GNOME desktop environment over Xfce and there's currently initial support for the ARM64 and PowerPC64el architectures with the Debian installer. This Jessie beta 2 update also has console setup changes, hardware detection improvements, and a number of other changes.

Debian with Xfce.

More details on the Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release can be found via yesterday's release announcement.

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