I really think the install should be a quick and painless thing. The GUI
makes this possible and as someone already mentioned, the hardware auto
detect is important.
The primary emphasis should be on what you do after the system is up and
running. No one should spend their days installing and reinstalling an
OS. The OS should be up and running in user 30 minutes, and then you can
do whatever you need to.
I recently did a SuSE 8.0 install, and was very impressed. I have been
using Mandrake for a while now, and thought I'd give SuSE a try. The
install was excellent (IMHO far superior to mandrakes), it game up and
was attractive, fairly simple to use, and is very stable. My hat goes
off to them.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Miller [mailto:mmiller1@mptotalcare.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:25 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Suspicions confirmed!
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 18:55, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:00:26AM -0400, Timothy wrote:
>
> > Steven;
> >
> > I know I'm taking the risk of being accused of trolling BUT IMHO Red
> > Hat has gone the way of Mickey$oft. First, the emphasis on GUI's
and
> > the denigration of the command line configuration.
>
> Welcome to the world of computers in the 21st century. Red Hat's not
> alone in this. Even Debian is using a GUI install these days, from
what
> I hear.
Untrue. Debian's install is still as unappealing as ever -- it's a
curses like menu install, a far cry from Red Hat, Mandrake or Suse's GUI
installers.
Most people are dissuaded from Debian for this reason alone -- the
installer lacks any autodetect features like other Linux distros and
assumes the user has a decent knowledge of the system's hardware when
installing. Too bad, since apt-get, dpkg, and dselect are by far (IMHO)
the best package management tools for any of the available distros.
-- Matt Miller Systems Administrator MP TotalCare, INC gpg public key id: 08BC7B06
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