Now that VMWare is actually working for me, I tried the GUI installer of Debian ‘etch’; not that the installation in VMWare hasn’t been tested often enough…

I intend to use the VM for some SELinux tests; the server I was running SELinux on has died recently (likely a bad power supply), so I currently don’t have any current SELinux system left. (I can probably still use rjc’s SELinux test box, though).

Anyway, I must say that I’m quite impressed with the GUI installer. It looks serious (not this wannabe-cool look that Vista has), but still welcoming and features the Debian colors. I like it.

Fonts are good, smooth but crisp. Unlike the fonts of Vista, which were heavily blurred (did they stop using hinting?)

Now we just need to get ‘etch’ released…