The new stable release of Debian GNU / Linux (codenamed Lenny) begins to take shape in a more defined and confirmed all the expectations of the community.

Among the new features there is one particularly interesting about the installer: the ability to upload firmware owners already during the earliest phases of the installation. In this way you will not need to make the hardware implementation of "special" only after you have installed and configured the operating system.

The new feature of Lenny installer makes it possible to take when installing the firmware specific to a particular device from an external device, such as a USB stick. In many cases you can get zipped versions of the firmware tarball and Debian repositories by downloading them directly from specifically dedicated for this purpose. A good innovation that will make it less complex integration of proprietary hardware-based systems Debian GNU / Linux.

This and other news are available in the Debian Project News was released today.