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The Sixth Alpha Release For Debian Installer Stretch

Written by Michael Larabel in Debian on 21 May 2016 at 07:54 PM EDT. 2 Comments

The sixth alpha release of the Debian Installer for the upcoming "Stretch" release is now available.

The Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release has various bug fixes, now uses the Linux 4.5 kernel rather than 4.3, fixes various partitioning issues, udev support is now present in wget, various installer enhancements, and much more.

Plenty more details on the Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release can be found via this debian-devel-announce message.

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