[ILUG-BOM] Debian trends and future distros.

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:42:39PM +0530, Rony wrote:
> Debian 4 which is still under 'Testing' and will be finally called Etch 
> http://www.us.debian.org/releases/testing/  can be downloaded for trial 
> using a small netinstall iso http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ from 
> http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ The netinstall iso is 
> the base system only. But saves download of heavy dvds for testing. 
> There are CD isos too but I don't know which iso contains what packages.

For knowing what's on the ISOs, see this:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-cd/

You'll see many .jigdo files. Get them. Then, notice this:

[kumar at debian ~] file debian-testing-i386-CD-1.jigdo 
debian-testing-i386-CD-1.jigdo: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max
compression

Bingo! All you do is zless <file>.jigdo, and you see the packages in
the CD.

Also, a package based and web based search is availabe here:

http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/

HTH.

Kumar
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